Outline of the Independent
Administrative Institution
National Museum

2005

Independent Administrative Institution
National Museum Secretariat
13-9, Ueno Koen, Taito-ku, Tokyo, 110-8712
Phone: 03-3822-1111
URL: http://www.natmus.jp/

CONTENTS

Greetings from the Chairman of the Board of Directors …1
Ⅰ

What is the new mandate of the National Museum? …2

Ⅱ Activities of the National Museum …………………3
１．Disseminating aesthetics and culture of Japan and Asia …3① Exhibitions② Research activities③ Educational activities④ Volunteer activities
２．Passing down aesthetics and culture of Japan and Asia…6① Collection, preservation and restoration② Recording and disseminating information
３．Attracting more people to the museums …………7① Number of visitors② Efficient use of museum facilities
４．Activities of the individual national museums ……8Tokyo National Museum
Kyoto National Museum
Nara National Museum
Kyushu National Museum
Ⅲ Operation of the National Museum ………………16
１．Cooperation with outside organizations and people …16① The supporting members system② Friends of the Museum
２．Organization and number of staff at each museum …16① Organization② Directors③ Board of Special Advisors④ Board of Outside Evaluation⑤ Board of Trustees⑥ Number of museum staff
３．Budget of the fiscal year 2005……………………21
Ⅳ

Greetings from the Chairman of the Board of Directors

Outline of the Independent
Administrative Institution National Museum

The member of the board of directors of the Independent Administrative Institution (IAI) National Museum changed in April 2005. Mr.
SHINOHARA, an Auditor, and I remained in
our posts, and newly, Mr. KUBONIWA as an
Auditor, Dr. SASAKI as a Director and the
Executive Director of the Kyoto National Museum, and Dr. YUYAMA as a Director and the
Executive Director of the Nara National Museum are appointed.
In April, the long-awaited Kyushu National
Museum, which has the new style of management in cooperation with Fukuoka prefecture,
was established in Dazaifu, Fukuoka. The
Kyushu National Museum is preparing its public opening in October 16th lead by Dr. MIWA,
the Executive Director of the Kyushu National
Museum.
The fiscal year of 2005 is the last year of the 5year mid-term plan, we intend to maximize oureffort to actualize the plans, while enhancing
the National Museum for the next mid-termplan starting in April 2006.

Evaluation …………………………………………22
Chairman of the Board of Directors of
the Independent Administrative Institution National Museum

Ⅴ

Disclosure of information …………………………24◇

Information about donation and membership ………25"Okuni Kabuki Screen" (Kyoto National Museum)

NOZAKI Hiroshi

CONTENTS

Greetings from the Chairman of the Board of Directors …1
Ⅰ

What is the new mandate of the National Museum? …2

Ⅱ Activities of the National Museum …………………3
１．Disseminating aesthetics and culture of Japan and Asia …3① Exhibitions② Research activities③ Educational activities④ Volunteer activities
２．Passing down aesthetics and culture of Japan and Asia…6① Collection, preservation and restoration② Recording and disseminating information
３．Attracting more people to the museums …………7① Number of visitors② Efficient use of museum facilities
４．Activities of the individual national museums ……8Tokyo National Museum
Kyoto National Museum
Nara National Museum
Kyushu National Museum
Ⅲ Operation of the National Museum ………………16
１．Cooperation with outside organizations and people …16① The supporting members system② Friends of the Museum
２．Organization and number of staff at each museum …16① Organization② Directors③ Board of Special Advisors④ Board of Outside Evaluation⑤ Board of Trustees⑥ Number of museum staff
３．Budget of the fiscal year 2005……………………21
Ⅳ

Greetings from the Chairman of the Board of Directors

Outline of the Independent
Administrative Institution National Museum

The member of the board of directors of the Independent Administrative Institution (IAI) National Museum changed in April 2005. Mr.
SHINOHARA, an Auditor, and I remained in
our posts, and newly, Mr. KUBONIWA as an
Auditor, Dr. SASAKI as a Director and the
Executive Director of the Kyoto National Museum, and Dr. YUYAMA as a Director and the
Executive Director of the Nara National Museum are appointed.
In April, the long-awaited Kyushu National
Museum, which has the new style of management in cooperation with Fukuoka prefecture,
was established in Dazaifu, Fukuoka. The
Kyushu National Museum is preparing its public opening in October 16th lead by Dr. MIWA,
the Executive Director of the Kyushu National
Museum.
The fiscal year of 2005 is the last year of the 5year mid-term plan, we intend to maximize oureffort to actualize the plans, while enhancing
the National Museum for the next mid-termplan starting in April 2006.

Evaluation …………………………………………22
Chairman of the Board of Directors of
the Independent Administrative Institution National Museum

Ⅴ

Disclosure of information …………………………24◇

Information about donation and membership ………25"Okuni Kabuki Screen" (Kyoto National Museum)

NOZAKI Hiroshi

National
MuseumWhat is the new mandateof the National Museum?

In April 2001, the Tokyo National Museum, the Kyoto National Museum and the Nara National Museum wereunited under the name of the Independent Administrative Institution National Museum (hereinafter referred toas the National Museum), as a part of the national government's administrative reform program, to provide
higher quality and better educational services to the public. This year the Kyushu National Museum isestablished in April 1, as the fourth National Museum, that is scheduled to open to the public in October 16.
To achieve the goals of the 5-year mid-term plan suggested as a guideline for the operation of the National
Museum by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (ECSST), we at the National
Museum worked out our own mid-term plan and annual plans, and are carrying out various projects according
to these plans.
As part of the 5-year mid-term plan (2001 through 2005), the National Museum aims to play the following
four basic roles, to make itself more appealing to the public and attract more people to the museum.
① Inherit Japanese culture, while passing down Japanese cultural properties, our invaluable national
properties, to the following generations in good condition② Present cultural properties to the public, in order to improve and develop Japanese culture③ Promote cultural exchanges between Japan and foreign countries, thus serving as a representativeof Japanese culture④ Contribute to the activities of museums in Japan and abroad, as Japan's central museum
To fulfill these goals, it is necessary for us to enrich our collection and improve museum facilities as well as
our ability to collect, preserve, display, and study cultural properties, including works of art and archaeologicalobjects.
In addition, we need to enhance our functions as an educational facility and as a platform for international
cultural exchanges and the dissemination of Japanese culture. Therefore, the following three points are listed
in the 5-year mid-term plan as objectives to be attained by the National Museum.
Ⅰ . Improve the efficiency of operation
Ⅱ . Improve the services provided to the public
Ⅲ . Improve our financial position

Tokyo National Museum

Honkan (Japanese Gallery, Important Cultural Property)
Opened in 1938

Nara National Museum

Activities of the
National Museum

The primary activities of the National Museum involve providing such direct services to visitors as exhibitions
and education. Study and research, including collecting and preserving works of art, are conducted in supportof the exhibit and education functions.
Expansion and improvement of museum facilities, such as storages and exhibition rooms, are very importantand prerequisite to all the museum's activities. Here are some of the most important things we do:
Exhibitions

Study and ResearchCollection

Visitors

Preservation

Educational activities

Improving and Enhancing our facilities

Disseminating aesthetics and culture of Japan and Asia
① Exhibitions
The National Museum offers regular exhibitions and provides a variety of special exhibitions to provide people
opportunities to face Japanese and Asian works of art and archaeological objects and to appreciate Japanese
aesthetics, as well as, develop a better understanding of traditional Japanese culture. Moreover, we cooperatewith museums overseas to organize exhibitions at the National Museum to introduce other cultures to Japanesepeople. At the same time, we can help with the presentation of exhibitions all around the world that illustrate
Japanese aesthetics and culture to people overseas.
Following points are considered for displaying works of art:a) To prevent discoloration and deterioration, lighting level for exhibition and temperature andhumidity must be carefully monitored and strictly controlled, and the length of time displayed
must be limited appropriately.
b) The contents of exhibitions are timed to suit the season, seasonal festivals and contemporary
events.

Kyoto National Museum

Main Building(Important Cultural Property)
Opened in 1897

Kyushu National Museum

Thematic exhibition, " Designs on Dotaku Bell-shaped
Bronzes " (Tokyo National Museum)Special feature, "Commemorating the Designation of
National Treasure Huike Offering His Arm to Bodhidharma
by Sesshu"(Kyoto National Museum)■ Regular exhibitions
Regular exhibitions generally display objects owned by the National Museum and loaned items, along with theindividual characteristics of the Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara and Kyushu National Museum. Each museum changes its
exhibits periodically, with about 11,800 items in total displayed during a year at the four museums.
■ Thematic exhibitions and special features
We also hold thematic exhibitions and special features. In these exhibits, works are displayed under specificthemes or recently discovered cultural properties and items that are rarely seen are specially featured andshown to the public.
Thematic exhibitions and special features scheduled for fiscal 2005
* For details, see "4. Activities of the individual national museums" on pages 8 - 15.

○ Special Feature : Buddha Head : National Treasure from Kohfukuji(September 21 − October 16, 2005) 〈Tokyo National Museum〉
Main Building(Important Cultural Property)
Opened in 1895

Opening in October, 2005

○ Japanese Poetry and Art : 1100 Years of Kokinshu, 800 Years of Shinkokinshu(November 23−December 25, 2005)〈Kyoto National Museum〉○ The Water-Drawing Ceremony(February 14−March 21, 2006) 〈Nara National Museum〉

National
MuseumWhat is the new mandateof the National Museum?

In April 2001, the Tokyo National Museum, the Kyoto National Museum and the Nara National Museum wereunited under the name of the Independent Administrative Institution National Museum (hereinafter referred toas the National Museum), as a part of the national government's administrative reform program, to provide
higher quality and better educational services to the public. This year the Kyushu National Museum isestablished in April 1, as the fourth National Museum, that is scheduled to open to the public in October 16.
To achieve the goals of the 5-year mid-term plan suggested as a guideline for the operation of the National
Museum by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (ECSST), we at the National
Museum worked out our own mid-term plan and annual plans, and are carrying out various projects according
to these plans.
As part of the 5-year mid-term plan (2001 through 2005), the National Museum aims to play the following
four basic roles, to make itself more appealing to the public and attract more people to the museum.
① Inherit Japanese culture, while passing down Japanese cultural properties, our invaluable national
properties, to the following generations in good condition② Present cultural properties to the public, in order to improve and develop Japanese culture③ Promote cultural exchanges between Japan and foreign countries, thus serving as a representativeof Japanese culture④ Contribute to the activities of museums in Japan and abroad, as Japan's central museum
To fulfill these goals, it is necessary for us to enrich our collection and improve museum facilities as well as
our ability to collect, preserve, display, and study cultural properties, including works of art and archaeologicalobjects.
In addition, we need to enhance our functions as an educational facility and as a platform for international
cultural exchanges and the dissemination of Japanese culture. Therefore, the following three points are listed
in the 5-year mid-term plan as objectives to be attained by the National Museum.
Ⅰ . Improve the efficiency of operation
Ⅱ . Improve the services provided to the public
Ⅲ . Improve our financial position

Tokyo National Museum

Honkan (Japanese Gallery, Important Cultural Property)
Opened in 1938

Nara National Museum

Activities of the
National Museum

The primary activities of the National Museum involve providing such direct services to visitors as exhibitions
and education. Study and research, including collecting and preserving works of art, are conducted in supportof the exhibit and education functions.
Expansion and improvement of museum facilities, such as storages and exhibition rooms, are very importantand prerequisite to all the museum's activities. Here are some of the most important things we do:
Exhibitions

Study and ResearchCollection

Visitors

Preservation

Educational activities

Improving and Enhancing our facilities

Disseminating aesthetics and culture of Japan and Asia
① Exhibitions
The National Museum offers regular exhibitions and provides a variety of special exhibitions to provide people
opportunities to face Japanese and Asian works of art and archaeological objects and to appreciate Japanese
aesthetics, as well as, develop a better understanding of traditional Japanese culture. Moreover, we cooperatewith museums overseas to organize exhibitions at the National Museum to introduce other cultures to Japanesepeople. At the same time, we can help with the presentation of exhibitions all around the world that illustrate
Japanese aesthetics and culture to people overseas.
Following points are considered for displaying works of art:a) To prevent discoloration and deterioration, lighting level for exhibition and temperature andhumidity must be carefully monitored and strictly controlled, and the length of time displayed
must be limited appropriately.
b) The contents of exhibitions are timed to suit the season, seasonal festivals and contemporary
events.

Kyoto National Museum

Main Building(Important Cultural Property)
Opened in 1897

Kyushu National Museum

Thematic exhibition, " Designs on Dotaku Bell-shaped
Bronzes " (Tokyo National Museum)Special feature, "Commemorating the Designation of
National Treasure Huike Offering His Arm to Bodhidharma
by Sesshu"(Kyoto National Museum)■ Regular exhibitions
Regular exhibitions generally display objects owned by the National Museum and loaned items, along with theindividual characteristics of the Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara and Kyushu National Museum. Each museum changes its
exhibits periodically, with about 11,800 items in total displayed during a year at the four museums.
■ Thematic exhibitions and special features
We also hold thematic exhibitions and special features. In these exhibits, works are displayed under specificthemes or recently discovered cultural properties and items that are rarely seen are specially featured andshown to the public.
Thematic exhibitions and special features scheduled for fiscal 2005
* For details, see "4. Activities of the individual national museums" on pages 8 - 15.

○ Special Feature : Buddha Head : National Treasure from Kohfukuji(September 21 − October 16, 2005) 〈Tokyo National Museum〉
Main Building(Important Cultural Property)
Opened in 1895

Opening in October, 2005

○ Japanese Poetry and Art : 1100 Years of Kokinshu, 800 Years of Shinkokinshu(November 23−December 25, 2005)〈Kyoto National Museum〉○ The Water-Drawing Ceremony(February 14−March 21, 2006) 〈Nara National Museum〉

Activities of the National Museum■ Special exhibitions
Special exhibitions are relatively large-scale exhibitions that are offered in keeping with our understanding ofvisitors' needs, based on the results of research conducted for that purpose.
Special exhibitions scheduled for fiscal 2005 * For details, see "4. Activities of the individual national museums" on pages 8 - 15.
○ HOKUSAI (October 25 - December 4, 2005) 〈Tokyo National Museum〉○ Faith and Syncretism: Saicho and Treasures of Tendai(October 8 - November 20, 2005) 〈Kyoto National Museum〉○ Ko‐Mikkyo: The Incipient Stages of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism(July 26 - September 4, 2005) 〈Nara National Museum〉○ 2005 Inaugural Exhibition"Japan, Country of Beauty"(October 16 - November 27, 2005) 〈Kyushu National Museum〉
Overseas exhibitions
Overseas exhibitions are organized in cooperation with overseas museums to disseminate Japaneseculture to people overseas and promote interests and understandings of Japanese culture.
Overseas exhibitions scheduled for fiscal 2005
○ "Japan Goes to the World's Fairs: Japanese Art at the Great Expositions
in Europe and the United States, 1867−1904"at the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art in U.S.A.
(May 12 - October 10, 2005) 〈Tokyo National Museum〉○ "Japanese Art from the Tokyo National Museum Collection(tentative title)" at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
in New Zealand (March 10 - May 7, 2006)〈Tokyo National Museum〉○ "Masterpieces of Calligraphy from China and Japan" (tentative title) "Calligraphic Art of Nishikawa Yasushi"（Beijing）〈Tokyo National Museum〉
at the Shanghai Museum in China (March 13 −April 23, 2006)〈Tokyo National Museum〉○ "Kyoto: Genius of 18th-Century Painting" (tentative title) at the
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in U.S.A. (December 2, 2005 February 26, 2006) 〈Kyoto National Museum〉"Masterpieces of Japanese Art"（Beijing）〈Nara National Museum〉

Regional traveling exhibitions
Regional traveling exhibitions of the National Museum Collection invarious regions within Japan are organized in cooperation with local
museums to promote interests and understandings of Japanese culture
and the National Museum.
Traveling exhibitions scheduled for fiscal 2005
○ "National Treasures, Their Beauty and Spirit " (co-organized by
Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture)(April 8 - May 8, 2005)〈Tokyo National Museum〉○ "The Annual Exhibition of National
Museum for 2005 Treasures ofNara National Museum"at the
Kanagawa Prefectual KanazawaBunko Museum(April 21 − June 5, 2005)② Research activities②研究活動

Exhibitions, the preservation of works of art and archeological objects and other activities carried out by the
National Museum are based on the research activities of curators and guest researchers of the museums. Research and investigation of cultural properties are especially important to the functions and enrichment of themuseum, and the results of these activities are reflected in the contents of regular and special exhibitions.
For example, the Tokyo National Museum conducted the joint research about "Nirvana" (a masterpiece of
Buddhist painting dated 1086) with National Research Institute For Cultural Properties, Tokyo, as organizing
the special exhibition "Treasures of a Sacred Mountain: Kukai and Mount Koya" from April through June,
2004. Using high-resolution digital photography and photofluorography, we attained important results including identifying the parts in the painting where organic pigments are used.
At the special exhibition "The Sacred World of Shinto Art in Kyoto" from August though September, 2004, theKyoto National Museum showed a newly discovered sacred treasure "Octagonal Jewel Box with Buddhist Deities" , created in Heian - early Kamakura period, for the first time to the public.
These research activities conducted by National Museum curators revitalize the museum's exhibitions.

展示活動、収蔵品の保管その他博物館における活動は、職員や客員研究員による研究活動によって支えられています。
特に文化財に関する調査研究は、博物館の基礎体力を築き強化するもので、その成果が平常展や展覧会に反映されています。
例えば平成１６年１月から２月に東京国立博物館で、4 月から 5 月に京都国立博物館で開催した「南禅寺」
展では、焼失したと考えられていた南禅寺の塔頭・帰雲院の障壁画（円山応挙筆）が、東京・京都国立博
物館の共同調査により東京国立博物館に保存されていたことが確認され、展示公開しました。 平成１５年１０
月から１１月に京都国立博物館で開催した 「金色のかざり−金属工芸に見る日本美」 では、江戸時代の七宝で、制作年と作者がわかる基準作品として、調査で新たに見出された滋賀県長浜市常喜区の金銅七宝装神輿を初公開しました。
このように、日々の研究活動が展示の活性化をもたらしています。

[Major research activities]a) Research concerning objects owned by each national museumb) Research related to exhibition themesc) Research into the cultural properties held by various regions, and at temples andshrines in local areasd) Research supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Researche) Joint research in and out of Japanf ) Research on the environment related to the preservation and exhibition of tangible
cultural properties【主な調査研究】ア）各館所蔵品の調査研究
イ）展覧会のテーマによる調査研究ウ）地域・社寺に関係する文化財調査
エ）科学研究費補助金による調査研究オ）国内外の共同研究
カ）有形文化財の保管・展示に関わる環境等の調査研究
Research of Buddhist painting(Nara National Museum)③ Educational activities
Now that the public has embraced the practice of lifelong study, a 5-day-a-week school schedule, and new curriculum guidelines from the government, we carry out a variety of educational activities in cooperation withschools and other educational institutions, including the followings.
In addition, we present training courses for curators of public and private museums to improve their professional skills. We intend to enhance our educational activities as one of the museum's important functions.
a) Gathering information and materials concerning cultural properties and making them available to the publicb) Programs for students and school teachersc) Public lectures and gallery talks (monthly lectures,lectures on the appreciation of works of art, Saturday lecture series)d) Internship programse) Cooperation with universities and collegesf ) Symposia
Teachers viewing of an exhibition(Tokyo National Museum)

Family gallery workshop for students (Tokyo National Museum)④ Volunteer activities
To support the public's interest in lifelong study, we accept volunteers and offer various fields of activities tothem, including gallery talks, supports at workshops, and other programs planned by the volunteers themselves.

③教育普及活動
生涯学習社会への対応、学校週５日制や新学習指導要領の実施に伴う学校教育機関との連携等、下記に掲げる多岐にわたる教育普及活動を行っています。
また、公私立博物館・美術館の学芸員の資質向上に資するため 「キューレーター実務研修」を実施しています。 教育普及活動は、今後の博物館活動の重要な柱の一つとして充実させて行きます。
ア）情報資料の収集と公開
イ）児童生徒・教員を対象とした事業
ウ）公開講座・ギャラリートーク（月例講演会、
美術鑑賞講座、土曜講座など）エ）インターンシップの受入れ
オ）大学等との連携
カ）シンポジウム④ボランティア
生涯学習社会への対応としてボランティアを受け入れ、展示会場での作品解説、ワークショップの補助やボランティア自身で企画・実施する事業など、国立博物館では、さまざまな活動の場を提供しています。

"National Treasures, Their Beauty
and Spirit "(Gifu Prefecture)〈Tokyo National Museum〉"The Annual Exhibition of National Museums for the 2005
Treasures of Nara National Museum"(Kanagawa Prefecture)〈Nara National Museum〉
Student volunteers(Tokyo National Museum)Gallery talks by student volunteers(Kyoto National Museum)

Talks by volunteers(Nara National Museum)Activities of the National Museum■ Special exhibitions
Special exhibitions are relatively large-scale exhibitions that are offered in keeping with our understanding ofvisitors' needs, based on the results of research conducted for that purpose.
Special exhibitions scheduled for fiscal 2005 * For details, see "4. Activities of the individual national museums" on pages 8 - 15.
○ HOKUSAI (October 25 - December 4, 2005) 〈Tokyo National Museum〉○ Faith and Syncretism: Saicho and Treasures of Tendai(October 8 - November 20, 2005) 〈Kyoto National Museum〉○ Ko‐Mikkyo: The Incipient Stages of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism(July 26 - September 4, 2005) 〈Nara National Museum〉○ 2005 Inaugural Exhibition"Japan, Country of Beauty"(October 16 - November 27, 2005) 〈Kyushu National Museum〉
Overseas exhibitions
Overseas exhibitions are organized in cooperation with overseas museums to disseminate Japaneseculture to people overseas and promote interests and understandings of Japanese culture.
Overseas exhibitions scheduled for fiscal 2005
○ "Japan Goes to the World's Fairs: Japanese Art at the Great Expositions
in Europe and the United States, 1867−1904"at the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art in U.S.A.
(May 12 - October 10, 2005) 〈Tokyo National Museum〉○ "Japanese Art from the Tokyo National Museum Collection(tentative title)" at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
in New Zealand (March 10 - May 7, 2006)〈Tokyo National Museum〉○ "Masterpieces of Calligraphy from China and Japan" (tentative title) "Calligraphic Art of Nishikawa Yasushi"（Beijing）〈Tokyo National Museum〉
at the Shanghai Museum in China (March 13 −April 23, 2006)〈Tokyo National Museum〉○ "Kyoto: Genius of 18th-Century Painting" (tentative title) at the
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in U.S.A. (December 2, 2005 February 26, 2006) 〈Kyoto National Museum〉"Masterpieces of Japanese Art"（Beijing）〈Nara National Museum〉

Regional traveling exhibitions
Regional traveling exhibitions of the National Museum Collection invarious regions within Japan are organized in cooperation with local
museums to promote interests and understandings of Japanese culture
and the National Museum.
Traveling exhibitions scheduled for fiscal 2005
○ "National Treasures, Their Beauty and Spirit " (co-organized by
Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture)(April 8 - May 8, 2005)〈Tokyo National Museum〉○ "The Annual Exhibition of National
Museum for 2005 Treasures ofNara National Museum"at the
Kanagawa Prefectual KanazawaBunko Museum(April 21 − June 5, 2005)② Research activities②研究活動

Exhibitions, the preservation of works of art and archeological objects and other activities carried out by the
National Museum are based on the research activities of curators and guest researchers of the museums. Research and investigation of cultural properties are especially important to the functions and enrichment of themuseum, and the results of these activities are reflected in the contents of regular and special exhibitions.
For example, the Tokyo National Museum conducted the joint research about "Nirvana" (a masterpiece of
Buddhist painting dated 1086) with National Research Institute For Cultural Properties, Tokyo, as organizing
the special exhibition "Treasures of a Sacred Mountain: Kukai and Mount Koya" from April through June,
2004. Using high-resolution digital photography and photofluorography, we attained important results including identifying the parts in the painting where organic pigments are used.
At the special exhibition "The Sacred World of Shinto Art in Kyoto" from August though September, 2004, theKyoto National Museum showed a newly discovered sacred treasure "Octagonal Jewel Box with Buddhist Deities" , created in Heian - early Kamakura period, for the first time to the public.
These research activities conducted by National Museum curators revitalize the museum's exhibitions.

展示活動、収蔵品の保管その他博物館における活動は、職員や客員研究員による研究活動によって支えられています。
特に文化財に関する調査研究は、博物館の基礎体力を築き強化するもので、その成果が平常展や展覧会に反映されています。
例えば平成１６年１月から２月に東京国立博物館で、4 月から 5 月に京都国立博物館で開催した「南禅寺」
展では、焼失したと考えられていた南禅寺の塔頭・帰雲院の障壁画（円山応挙筆）が、東京・京都国立博
物館の共同調査により東京国立博物館に保存されていたことが確認され、展示公開しました。 平成１５年１０
月から１１月に京都国立博物館で開催した 「金色のかざり−金属工芸に見る日本美」 では、江戸時代の七宝で、制作年と作者がわかる基準作品として、調査で新たに見出された滋賀県長浜市常喜区の金銅七宝装神輿を初公開しました。
このように、日々の研究活動が展示の活性化をもたらしています。

[Major research activities]a) Research concerning objects owned by each national museumb) Research related to exhibition themesc) Research into the cultural properties held by various regions, and at temples andshrines in local areasd) Research supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Researche) Joint research in and out of Japanf ) Research on the environment related to the preservation and exhibition of tangible
cultural properties【主な調査研究】ア）各館所蔵品の調査研究
イ）展覧会のテーマによる調査研究ウ）地域・社寺に関係する文化財調査
エ）科学研究費補助金による調査研究オ）国内外の共同研究
カ）有形文化財の保管・展示に関わる環境等の調査研究
Research of Buddhist painting(Nara National Museum)③ Educational activities
Now that the public has embraced the practice of lifelong study, a 5-day-a-week school schedule, and new curriculum guidelines from the government, we carry out a variety of educational activities in cooperation withschools and other educational institutions, including the followings.
In addition, we present training courses for curators of public and private museums to improve their professional skills. We intend to enhance our educational activities as one of the museum's important functions.
a) Gathering information and materials concerning cultural properties and making them available to the publicb) Programs for students and school teachersc) Public lectures and gallery talks (monthly lectures,lectures on the appreciation of works of art, Saturday lecture series)d) Internship programse) Cooperation with universities and collegesf ) Symposia
Teachers viewing of an exhibition(Tokyo National Museum)

Family gallery workshop for students (Tokyo National Museum)④ Volunteer activities
To support the public's interest in lifelong study, we accept volunteers and offer various fields of activities tothem, including gallery talks, supports at workshops, and other programs planned by the volunteers themselves.

③教育普及活動
生涯学習社会への対応、学校週５日制や新学習指導要領の実施に伴う学校教育機関との連携等、下記に掲げる多岐にわたる教育普及活動を行っています。
また、公私立博物館・美術館の学芸員の資質向上に資するため 「キューレーター実務研修」を実施しています。 教育普及活動は、今後の博物館活動の重要な柱の一つとして充実させて行きます。
ア）情報資料の収集と公開
イ）児童生徒・教員を対象とした事業
ウ）公開講座・ギャラリートーク（月例講演会、
美術鑑賞講座、土曜講座など）エ）インターンシップの受入れ
オ）大学等との連携
カ）シンポジウム④ボランティア
生涯学習社会への対応としてボランティアを受け入れ、展示会場での作品解説、ワークショップの補助やボランティア自身で企画・実施する事業など、国立博物館では、さまざまな活動の場を提供しています。

"National Treasures, Their Beauty
and Spirit "(Gifu Prefecture)〈Tokyo National Museum〉"The Annual Exhibition of National Museums for the 2005
Treasures of Nara National Museum"(Kanagawa Prefecture)〈Nara National Museum〉
Student volunteers(Tokyo National Museum)Gallery talks by student volunteers(Kyoto National Museum)

Talks by volunteers(Nara National Museum)Activities of the National Museum

2

3

Passing down aesthetics and culture of Japan and Asia
① Collection, preservation and restoration① Number of visitors (fiscal 2004)■ Collecting and borrowing objects
To enhance the characteristics of the Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara and Kyushu National Museums and to preventthe dispersion of tangible cultural properties and their leaving our national boundary, we makecontinuous efforts to collect tangible cultural properties by purchasing or borrowing them, andaccepting donations.
Our collection(as of March 31, 2005)
National Important
culturaltreasure property

119,474 130

899

Total

National Important
culturaltreasure property

111,444

91

623

Total

National Important
culturaltreasure property

Total

6,238

27

1,727

181

National Important
culturaltreasure property

12

95

Total

0

Tokyo National Museum

Kyoto National Museum

Nara National Museum

Total: 2,162,000

1,528,000

269,000

365,000

PeopleNumber of visitors in the past 4 years(after the conversion to the Independent Administrative Institution)

1,400,000

National Important
culturaltreasure property

65

National Museum

1,600,000

National Museum Tokyo National Museum Kyoto National Museum Nara National Museum Kyushu National Museum
Total

Attracting more people to the museums

1,200,000

01,000,000

From new acquisitions in fiscal 2004

Tokyo National Museum

800,000

Kyoto National Museum

600,000
400,000

Nara National Museum

200,000
0
Detached segment of scroll of Thirty-six
Immortal Poets, Nobuhusa version (Tokyo
National Museum)Landscape with osi-e (Kyoto National Museum)

European-style chest with plant, bird andanimal designs in maki-e lacquer (Kyushu
National Museum)Standing Bishamonten(Nara National Museum)

To enrich the contents of regular exhibitions, we borrow cultural properties possessed by public andprivate organizations or individuals. In order to show designated cultural properties to the public, we
also utilize works of art recommended and approved by the Director General of the Agency for Cultural
Affairs.
Art objects on loan
(as of March 31, 2005)

National Museum Tokyo National Museum Kyoto National Museum Nara National Museum
Total

National Important
culturaltreasure property

Total

10,539197 1,279

2,451

National Important
culturaltreasure property

62

326

Total

6,142

National Important
culturaltreasure property

83

628

Total

1,946

2001

2002

2003

2004

② Efficient use of museum facilities
In order to attract more people to the national museums and awaken their interest in cultural properties, werent some of the museum facilities for the various private-business events. In this case, viewing some of themuseum's works of art is one of the major components of the event. This new approach was adopted after the
National Museum complex became an Independent Administrative Institution. Events planned and organizedby the National Museum are mainly aiming at facilitating more public exposure of exhibitions and museum
facilities. We are also trying to make efficient use of our museum facilities by responding positively to theneeds of private businesses and organizations, which sometimes cooperate in these offerings.

National Important
culturaltreasure property

52

325

■ Restorations
In Japan, the tangible cultural properties that have been passed down tothe present generation had generally been repaired about once every 100
years.
The National Museum carries out two types of repairs: partial ones on an
as-needed basis around the time of exhibitions and preservation, and fullscale ones performed on a periodic basis in response to the progress ofdeterioration of the art object.
② Recording and disseminating information
We are promoting publishing research results and restoration reports,
operating museum's web site, and digitalizing information about culturalproperties, in order to pass information about them down to future
generations. Digital data of Images of collections are also available (withfee) for commercial use (through TNM Image Archives and @KYOTO
MUSE.)

Before restoration

Examples of efficient use of museum facilities in fiscal 2004
Events organized by the National Museum
・ Literature lecture meeting (Tokyo National Museum)・ Music concert in collaboration with Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo National
Museum)・ Music concert held jointly with the Salon de Sonnet and Telemann Institute Japan (Tokyo National
Museum)・ Rakugo at the Museum (Kyoto National Museum)・ Gagaku Evening (Nara National Museum)
Renting museum facilities to private entities
・ Viewing of exhibits and party held under the auspice of private sectors (Tokyo National Museum)・ Renting venues for TV dramas (Kyoto National Museum)・ Photo exhibition held by Association for promotion for World Heritage Registration, Yoshino (NaraNational Museum)・ Reception for members of Swedish parliament (Nara National Museum)

Publications○ Exhibition Catalogues○ Bulletins on research○ Restoration reports
After restoration
Biographical Stories of the Priest Ippen, Vol. 7 (Tokyo National Museum)Museum goods made from application of TNM Image Archives Service (Tokyo National Museum)

Party held by a private company (Tokyo National Museum)

Christmas Opera Concert (Kyoto National
Museum)Bunraku Evening (Nara National Museum)Activities of the National Museum

2

3

Passing down aesthetics and culture of Japan and Asia
① Collection, preservation and restoration① Number of visitors (fiscal 2004)■ Collecting and borrowing objects
To enhance the characteristics of the Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara and Kyushu National Museums and to preventthe dispersion of tangible cultural properties and their leaving our national boundary, we makecontinuous efforts to collect tangible cultural properties by purchasing or borrowing them, andaccepting donations.
Our collection(as of March 31, 2005)
National Important
culturaltreasure property

119,474 130

899

Total

National Important
culturaltreasure property

111,444

91

623

Total

National Important
culturaltreasure property

Total

6,238

27

1,727

181

National Important
culturaltreasure property

12

95

Total

0

Tokyo National Museum

Kyoto National Museum

Nara National Museum

Total: 2,162,000

1,528,000

269,000

365,000

PeopleNumber of visitors in the past 4 years(after the conversion to the Independent Administrative Institution)

1,400,000

National Important
culturaltreasure property

65

National Museum

1,600,000

National Museum Tokyo National Museum Kyoto National Museum Nara National Museum Kyushu National Museum
Total

Attracting more people to the museums

1,200,000

01,000,000

From new acquisitions in fiscal 2004

Tokyo National Museum

800,000

Kyoto National Museum

600,000
400,000

Nara National Museum

200,000
0
Detached segment of scroll of Thirty-six
Immortal Poets, Nobuhusa version (Tokyo
National Museum)Landscape with osi-e (Kyoto National Museum)

European-style chest with plant, bird andanimal designs in maki-e lacquer (Kyushu
National Museum)Standing Bishamonten(Nara National Museum)

To enrich the contents of regular exhibitions, we borrow cultural properties possessed by public andprivate organizations or individuals. In order to show designated cultural properties to the public, we
also utilize works of art recommended and approved by the Director General of the Agency for Cultural
Affairs.
Art objects on loan
(as of March 31, 2005)

National Museum Tokyo National Museum Kyoto National Museum Nara National Museum
Total

National Important
culturaltreasure property

Total

10,539197 1,279

2,451

National Important
culturaltreasure property

62

326

Total

6,142

National Important
culturaltreasure property

83

628

Total

1,946

2001

2002

2003

2004

② Efficient use of museum facilities
In order to attract more people to the national museums and awaken their interest in cultural properties, werent some of the museum facilities for the various private-business events. In this case, viewing some of themuseum's works of art is one of the major components of the event. This new approach was adopted after the
National Museum complex became an Independent Administrative Institution. Events planned and organizedby the National Museum are mainly aiming at facilitating more public exposure of exhibitions and museum
facilities. We are also trying to make efficient use of our museum facilities by responding positively to theneeds of private businesses and organizations, which sometimes cooperate in these offerings.

National Important
culturaltreasure property

52

325

■ Restorations
In Japan, the tangible cultural properties that have been passed down tothe present generation had generally been repaired about once every 100
years.
The National Museum carries out two types of repairs: partial ones on an
as-needed basis around the time of exhibitions and preservation, and fullscale ones performed on a periodic basis in response to the progress ofdeterioration of the art object.
② Recording and disseminating information
We are promoting publishing research results and restoration reports,
operating museum's web site, and digitalizing information about culturalproperties, in order to pass information about them down to future
generations. Digital data of Images of collections are also available (withfee) for commercial use (through TNM Image Archives and @KYOTO
MUSE.)

Before restoration

Examples of efficient use of museum facilities in fiscal 2004
Events organized by the National Museum
・ Literature lecture meeting (Tokyo National Museum)・ Music concert in collaboration with Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo National
Museum)・ Music concert held jointly with the Salon de Sonnet and Telemann Institute Japan (Tokyo National
Museum)・ Rakugo at the Museum (Kyoto National Museum)・ Gagaku Evening (Nara National Museum)
Renting museum facilities to private entities
・ Viewing of exhibits and party held under the auspice of private sectors (Tokyo National Museum)・ Renting venues for TV dramas (Kyoto National Museum)・ Photo exhibition held by Association for promotion for World Heritage Registration, Yoshino (NaraNational Museum)・ Reception for members of Swedish parliament (Nara National Museum)

Publications○ Exhibition Catalogues○ Bulletins on research○ Restoration reports
After restoration
Biographical Stories of the Priest Ippen, Vol. 7 (Tokyo National Museum)Museum goods made from application of TNM Image Archives Service (Tokyo National Museum)

Party held by a private company (Tokyo National Museum)

Christmas Opera Concert (Kyoto National
Museum)Bunraku Evening (Nara National Museum)4

To kyoActivities of the individual national museums

National Museum

Tokyo National Museum
In 2005, there are various international events in Japan, including the EXPO 2005 AICHI JAPAN,
2005 Japan, EU Year of People-to-People Exchanges, Deutschland in Japan, and Japan-Korea
Friendship year 2005. As acting in concern with the Visit Japan Campaign, we intend to stress theinternational exchanges and make efforts to attract much more visitors from abroad. Besides that,
there are the fine Buddhist arts in Asuka−Hakuhou period which are more ancient than the Shosoin
treasures, in the gallery of Horyuji Treasures. Whilst improving the suggested route for visitors andthe use of space inside the gallery, and holding programs such as thematic exhibitions or special
features, we plan to use the gallery not only as a place of "appreciation", but also the space of"relaxation".
Executive Director of the Tokyo National Museum NOZAKI Hiroshi●Regular exhibitions
Regular exhibitions are held at the Honkan (Japanese Gallery), Toyokan (Asian Gallery),
Heiseikan, and The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures. The exhibits in the regular exhibitions arerotated frequently (about 180 times a year). About 8000 cultural properties are scheduled to be
displayed during fiscal year 2005.Each building is characterized as follows:
HONKAN(Japanese Gallery) displays art works and historic materials from Japan.
1st floor : Exhibits organized by types of works, such as sculpture, ceramics,
swords, etc.
2nd floor : "Highlights of Japanese Art": overview of Japanese art history inchronological order from the Jomon to the Edo period
TOYOKAN(Asian Gallery) contains works of arts and archeological objects from all overAsia, including China and Korean peninsula.
HEISEIKAN shows Japanese archeological objects, such as clay potteries of the Jomon
period and bronze bells in the Yayoi period and a haniwa terracotta tombfigures in the Kohun period, etc.) in the Japanese Archaeology Gallery on thefirst floor.
The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures houses and displays over 300 treasures that were donatedto the Imperial family by the Horyuji temple, Nara, in the Meiji era, whichcontain excellent examples of ancient Buddhist art.
Thematic exhibitions and special features
Thematic exhibitions are often held within a regular exhibition. Also, cultural properties thatare not usually on public display are shown as special features. Followings are some of thethematic exhibitions and special features scheduled for fiscal 2005.
・History of Japanese Helmets- from the Kofun to the Edo period (4th century - 19th century)(March 29 - July 3)
・2005 Newly Designated National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties

Location:
13-9, Ueno Park, Taito-Ku, Tokyo, 110-8712
Phone: 03-3822-1111
http://www.tnm.jp/
National Treasure
Fan-paper album of Hoke-kyo
Sutra (Tokyo National Museum)

Responding to the introduction of the five-day-a-week school schedule, in cooperation with schools we present a variety of activities for students and teachers, such as lecture series and workshops for students, and training courses forteachers.
Here are some of the educational activities scheduled for fiscal 2005:

Regular exhibition（Honkan）

・New Acquisitions: 2004

(May 24 - June 19)

・Albums of Natural History: Historical Connections(June 21 - July 31)

・Newly acquired Treasures for Japan(July 26 - September 4)(September 21 - October 16)(December 23 - January 15, 2006)(January 2 - January 29, 2006)
Special exhibition "Arts of East and West fromWorld Expositions"(March 14 - April 9, 2006)●Special exhibitions
Special exhibitions are organized as occasions for presenting the result of research andresponding to requests from the people.
The following special exhibitions are scheduled for fiscal 2005:
・Masterpieces of the Museum Island, Berlin −Visions of the Divine in the Sanctuary of Art(April 5 - June 12)・Passing Traditions in Japanese Art−Study, Copy, Create(July 20 - September 11)
・Splendid and Refined: Imari Ware and Kyoto Ware Ceramics(October 4 - December 4)
・HOKUSAI(October 25 - December 4)・Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy(January 11 - February 19, 2006)
・Faith and Syncretism: Saicho and Treasures of Tendai(March 28 - May 7, 2006)

Visitor information
Hours

Family Gallery

Research activities
Regular exhibition（The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures）
photo by SATO Akira

・Special Feature : Buddha Head-National Treasure from Kohfukuji・National Treasure: Prince Shotoku and the Embroidery of Heavenly Paradise・Family Gallery
・Gallery Talks by volunteers
・Curator's experience programs forstudents
・Activities for "Period for Integrated
Study" program・Exhibition-related tours inside andoutside the museum
・Lecture series on the appreciationof works of art
・Training programs for teachers
・Teachers' sessions and private
viewings of special exhibitions

1872 The Ministry of Education held the first public exhibition in
Japan, at the Taiseiden Hall of the former Seido at Yushima,
Tokyo. The museum was started as the exhibition hallcontinued on under the name of the Museum of the
Ministry of Education.
1875 Authority over the Museum was transferred to the Ministryof Interior. Its collections were divided into eight categories:
nature, agriculture & forestry, industry, fine art, history,
education, law, and land & sea.
1882 The Museum was moved to its present location, a site
formerly occupied by the Hombo (headquarters) of theKaneiji Temple in Ueno.
1889 The Museum became a part of the Imperial Ministry andwas renamed the Imperial Museum.
1900 The Museum was once again renamed, becoming theTokyo Imperial Household Museum.
1923 The Honkan (main building) was damaged in the Great
Kanto Earthquake.
1925 Objects in the Nature division were transferred to the Tokyo
Museum of the Ministry of Education (now the National
Science Museum).
1938 The present Honkan (main building) was opened.
1947 The Museum was placed under the authority of the Ministryof Education and renamed the National Museum.
1978 The Hyokeikan building was designated an important
cultural property.
1999 The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures and the Heiseikan building
were opened.
2001 The Museum became the Tokyo National Museum of the
Independent Administrative Institution National Museum.
2001 The Honkan (main building) was designated an important
cultural property.

ClosedAdmissions(April26 - May 8)・Attractions of Edo

Brief history

Educational activities■ Exhibitions

・Celebrating New Year at the Tokyo National Museum

Number of objects owned by the museum:
111,444 (91 National Treasures and 623 Important Cultural
Properties)
Number of art objects on loan:
2,451 (62 National Treasures and 326 Important Cultural
Properties)(as of March 31, 2005)

As the most representative museum of Japan, theTokyo National Museum collects, preserves,displays, researches and provides educational
programs about the cultural properties of Asiawith a focus on Japan.

We plan and conduct research, the results of which are reflected in our collection, preservation, and exhibition. In addition to funds allocated in our annual
budget, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research and grants for cultural activities
from the government are used to carry out our research activities.
Belows are some of the research themes scheduled for fiscal 2005:
・Research on the copies by Kano school in the TNM collection
・Scientific Investigation on Technological Transference and its Transfiguration of European Painting Techniques during Seventeenth and Nineteenth
century・Constructing a theory aiming at redevelopment of historic buildings as exhibition spaces for cultural properties
・Special Investigation on Horyuji Treasures ⅩⅩⅥ : Illustrated Biographyof Prince Shotoku
・Research and Investigation on Igarashi maki-e lacquer in the Edo period, focusing on close observation of powders for maki-e decoration
・Comprehensive Research on historical documents previously ownedby the Edo Shogunate Government

9:30 - 17:00 (last admissions at 16:30)
9:30 - 20:00 on Friday (last admissions at 19:30) April
thru December (during special exhibition periods only).
9:30 - 18:00 on Saturday, Sunday and holidays (lastadmissions at 17:30) April thru September
Mondays (If a National Holiday falls on a Monday, themuseum is open on that day and closed the following
day instead.)Year-end holidays and New Year's Day (December 28 January 1)
Adults: 420 yen (group rate - 210)
University/College students: 130 yen (group rate - 70)
High school students and under: Free

※Prices in parentheses are for people in groups of 20 or more.
※Special exhibitions required separate admissions※People with disabilities and one companion are admitted free of charge.
※Regular exhibitions are free of charge to those 65 years old and over.

N

Heiseikan

HonkanWest Gate
Shiryokan

Hyokeikan

ToyokanGallery of
HoryujiTreasures
KuromonSpecial exhibition "National Treasures of
Toshodaiji Temple- Ganjinwajo and Vairocana
Buddha "Research activity

Main Gate

4

To kyoActivities of the individual national museums

National Museum

Tokyo National Museum
In 2005, there are various international events in Japan, including the EXPO 2005 AICHI JAPAN,
2005 Japan, EU Year of People-to-People Exchanges, Deutschland in Japan, and Japan-Korea
Friendship year 2005. As acting in concern with the Visit Japan Campaign, we intend to stress theinternational exchanges and make efforts to attract much more visitors from abroad. Besides that,
there are the fine Buddhist arts in Asuka−Hakuhou period which are more ancient than the Shosoin
treasures, in the gallery of Horyuji Treasures. Whilst improving the suggested route for visitors andthe use of space inside the gallery, and holding programs such as thematic exhibitions or special
features, we plan to use the gallery not only as a place of "appreciation", but also the space of"relaxation".
Executive Director of the Tokyo National Museum NOZAKI Hiroshi●Regular exhibitions
Regular exhibitions are held at the Honkan (Japanese Gallery), Toyokan (Asian Gallery),
Heiseikan, and The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures. The exhibits in the regular exhibitions arerotated frequently (about 180 times a year). About 8000 cultural properties are scheduled to be
displayed during fiscal year 2005.Each building is characterized as follows:
HONKAN(Japanese Gallery) displays art works and historic materials from Japan.
1st floor : Exhibits organized by types of works, such as sculpture, ceramics,
swords, etc.
2nd floor : "Highlights of Japanese Art": overview of Japanese art history inchronological order from the Jomon to the Edo period
TOYOKAN(Asian Gallery) contains works of arts and archeological objects from all overAsia, including China and Korean peninsula.
HEISEIKAN shows Japanese archeological objects, such as clay potteries of the Jomon
period and bronze bells in the Yayoi period and a haniwa terracotta tombfigures in the Kohun period, etc.) in the Japanese Archaeology Gallery on thefirst floor.
The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures houses and displays over 300 treasures that were donatedto the Imperial family by the Horyuji temple, Nara, in the Meiji era, whichcontain excellent examples of ancient Buddhist art.
Thematic exhibitions and special features
Thematic exhibitions are often held within a regular exhibition. Also, cultural properties thatare not usually on public display are shown as special features. Followings are some of thethematic exhibitions and special features scheduled for fiscal 2005.
・History of Japanese Helmets- from the Kofun to the Edo period (4th century - 19th century)(March 29 - July 3)
・2005 Newly Designated National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties

Location:
13-9, Ueno Park, Taito-Ku, Tokyo, 110-8712
Phone: 03-3822-1111
http://www.tnm.jp/
National Treasure
Fan-paper album of Hoke-kyo
Sutra (Tokyo National Museum)

Responding to the introduction of the five-day-a-week school schedule, in cooperation with schools we present a variety of activities for students and teachers, such as lecture series and workshops for students, and training courses forteachers.
Here are some of the educational activities scheduled for fiscal 2005:

Regular exhibition（Honkan）

・New Acquisitions: 2004

(May 24 - June 19)

・Albums of Natural History: Historical Connections(June 21 - July 31)

・Newly acquired Treasures for Japan(July 26 - September 4)(September 21 - October 16)(December 23 - January 15, 2006)(January 2 - January 29, 2006)
Special exhibition "Arts of East and West fromWorld Expositions"(March 14 - April 9, 2006)●Special exhibitions
Special exhibitions are organized as occasions for presenting the result of research andresponding to requests from the people.
The following special exhibitions are scheduled for fiscal 2005:
・Masterpieces of the Museum Island, Berlin −Visions of the Divine in the Sanctuary of Art(April 5 - June 12)・Passing Traditions in Japanese Art−Study, Copy, Create(July 20 - September 11)
・Splendid and Refined: Imari Ware and Kyoto Ware Ceramics(October 4 - December 4)
・HOKUSAI(October 25 - December 4)・Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy(January 11 - February 19, 2006)
・Faith and Syncretism: Saicho and Treasures of Tendai(March 28 - May 7, 2006)

Visitor information
Hours

Family Gallery

Research activities
Regular exhibition（The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures）
photo by SATO Akira

・Special Feature : Buddha Head-National Treasure from Kohfukuji・National Treasure: Prince Shotoku and the Embroidery of Heavenly Paradise・Family Gallery
・Gallery Talks by volunteers
・Curator's experience programs forstudents
・Activities for "Period for Integrated
Study" program・Exhibition-related tours inside andoutside the museum
・Lecture series on the appreciationof works of art
・Training programs for teachers
・Teachers' sessions and private
viewings of special exhibitions

1872 The Ministry of Education held the first public exhibition in
Japan, at the Taiseiden Hall of the former Seido at Yushima,
Tokyo. The museum was started as the exhibition hallcontinued on under the name of the Museum of the
Ministry of Education.
1875 Authority over the Museum was transferred to the Ministryof Interior. Its collections were divided into eight categories:
nature, agriculture & forestry, industry, fine art, history,
education, law, and land & sea.
1882 The Museum was moved to its present location, a site
formerly occupied by the Hombo (headquarters) of theKaneiji Temple in Ueno.
1889 The Museum became a part of the Imperial Ministry andwas renamed the Imperial Museum.
1900 The Museum was once again renamed, becoming theTokyo Imperial Household Museum.
1923 The Honkan (main building) was damaged in the Great
Kanto Earthquake.
1925 Objects in the Nature division were transferred to the Tokyo
Museum of the Ministry of Education (now the National
Science Museum).
1938 The present Honkan (main building) was opened.
1947 The Museum was placed under the authority of the Ministryof Education and renamed the National Museum.
1978 The Hyokeikan building was designated an important
cultural property.
1999 The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures and the Heiseikan building
were opened.
2001 The Museum became the Tokyo National Museum of the
Independent Administrative Institution National Museum.
2001 The Honkan (main building) was designated an important
cultural property.

ClosedAdmissions(April26 - May 8)・Attractions of Edo

Brief history

Educational activities■ Exhibitions

・Celebrating New Year at the Tokyo National Museum

Number of objects owned by the museum:
111,444 (91 National Treasures and 623 Important Cultural
Properties)
Number of art objects on loan:
2,451 (62 National Treasures and 326 Important Cultural
Properties)(as of March 31, 2005)

As the most representative museum of Japan, theTokyo National Museum collects, preserves,displays, researches and provides educational
programs about the cultural properties of Asiawith a focus on Japan.

We plan and conduct research, the results of which are reflected in our collection, preservation, and exhibition. In addition to funds allocated in our annual
budget, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research and grants for cultural activities
from the government are used to carry out our research activities.
Belows are some of the research themes scheduled for fiscal 2005:
・Research on the copies by Kano school in the TNM collection
・Scientific Investigation on Technological Transference and its Transfiguration of European Painting Techniques during Seventeenth and Nineteenth
century・Constructing a theory aiming at redevelopment of historic buildings as exhibition spaces for cultural properties
・Special Investigation on Horyuji Treasures ⅩⅩⅥ : Illustrated Biographyof Prince Shotoku
・Research and Investigation on Igarashi maki-e lacquer in the Edo period, focusing on close observation of powders for maki-e decoration
・Comprehensive Research on historical documents previously ownedby the Edo Shogunate Government

9:30 - 17:00 (last admissions at 16:30)
9:30 - 20:00 on Friday (last admissions at 19:30) April
thru December (during special exhibition periods only).
9:30 - 18:00 on Saturday, Sunday and holidays (lastadmissions at 17:30) April thru September
Mondays (If a National Holiday falls on a Monday, themuseum is open on that day and closed the following
day instead.)Year-end holidays and New Year's Day (December 28 January 1)
Adults: 420 yen (group rate - 210)
University/College students: 130 yen (group rate - 70)
High school students and under: Free

※Prices in parentheses are for people in groups of 20 or more.
※Special exhibitions required separate admissions※People with disabilities and one companion are admitted free of charge.
※Regular exhibitions are free of charge to those 65 years old and over.

N

Heiseikan

HonkanWest Gate
Shiryokan

Hyokeikan

ToyokanGallery of
HoryujiTreasures
KuromonSpecial exhibition "National Treasures of
Toshodaiji Temple- Ganjinwajo and Vairocana
Buddha "Research activity

Main Gate

Kyo t o

Activities of the individual national museums

National Museum
Number of art objects owned by the museum:
6,238 (27 National Treasures and 181 Important Cultural
Properties)
Number of art objects on loan:
6,142 (83 National Treasures and 628 Important Cultural
Properties)(as of March 31, 2005)

At the Kyoto National Museum we conduct avariety of activities related to cultural properties
from the Heian to the Edo period in Kyoto.

Kyoto National Museum

Brief history
At the Kyoto National Museum, we aim to evolve in the Kyoto area where time-honored traditions
have been inherited. The cultural arts that flourished in this ancient capital spread to the rest ofJapan, creating artistic expressions after defined as "Japanese".
While balancing the aspect of collection, preservation, restoration, study and research with that ofexhibitions and educational activities, we hope the museum can provide a comfortable andenjoyable space for the public.

Location:
527 Chayamachi, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto City,

Important Cultural Property
Folding Screen with Flowers
and Birds Four Seasons(Kyoto National Museum)Kyoto Prefecture 605-0931
Phone: 075-541-1151
http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/

Executive Director, Kyoto National Museum

SASAKI Johei

Educational activities

Exhibition activities●Activities for students
・Preparation of explanatory sheets about art
objects (The Museum Dictionary) for elementary and junior high-school students,
with postings on our web site
・Lectures and seminars for elementary and middle school students (The Museum Children's Club) in collaboration with thematic exhibitions
・Painting contest
・Museum workshops for middle-school students●Regular exhibitions
Regular exhibitions are held in The Collections Hall. Art and craft objects produced through theages, up to the early years of the modern era, are displayed under the categories of Paintings,
Sculpture, Applied Arts, Calligraphy, and Archaeological find. The exhibits are changed
periodically (about 50 times a year) to display about 2000 objects in total per year.
Thematic exhibitions
Thematic exhibitions are held in a section of the regular exhibition space, developing aparticular theme.
・New Acquisitions(June 1 - July 3)

・Tracing the History of the Ji Sect: Celebrating 1200 Years of Choraku-ji Temple

Regular exhibition(July 13 - August 21)
・Japanese Poetry and Art: 1100 Years of Kokinshu, 800 Years of Shinkokinshu(November 23 - December 25)
・Master Swords from Temples and Shrines in Kyoto(January 2 - February 12, 2006)

・Sculptures of Shinto Deities and Guardian Lions and Lion Dogs
(January 2 - March 26, 2006)
・Girls' Day and Dolls

Training course in museum science(February 18 - April 2, 2006)

・Commemorating the Restoration of the Myoken-ji Temple Documents(March 1 - April 2, 2006)

Special Feature：Buddhist images and photographs●Cooperation with Kyoto University for graduate programs
As full or associate professors at the Kyoto University Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, our curators hold seminars and give lectures.
●Seminars and lectures
・Saturday lecture series (about 45 times ayear)
Every Saturday our curators give lectures
about exhibitions and exhibits.
・Summer seminars (July 27 - 29)
Lectures are delivered under the theme of"Replication and CreationⅢ."
・International symposium centered around thespecial exhibition, " Faith and Syncretism :Saicho and Treasures of Tendai " (November
12)

Summer seminar

Free admission days:
Admission to regular and thematic exhibitions is free on the 2nd
and 4th Saturday of each month.

N

North Gate

North
Repository

East
Repository

Maruike Pond

Special Exhibition Hall

Technical
Materials Center
Parking lot
Entrance

Shichijo Street
To JR's Kintetsu Kyoto Station
Sanjusagendo Temple

Kyoto Rakugo Museum

South Gate

Exit

Tee room

Higashi-oji Street

Main Gate

To Kiyomizutera
templeGate

LectureHall

Administrationbuilding

Collection Hall

Center for the Conservationof Cultural Properties

Conservation Center for Cultural Properties●Rakugo at the Museum
Rakugo is traditional Japanese comic storytelling. We host Rakugo performances four times
a year, once during each season, based on seasonal themes.
Lectures and concerts are also held at the museum.

※Prices in parentheses are for people in groups of 20 or more.
※Special exhibitions required separate admissions※People with disabilities and one companion are admitted free of charge.
※Regular exhibitions are free of charge to those 70 years old and over.

Yamato-oji Street

Other activities

9:30 - 17:00 (last admissions at 16:30)
9:30 - 20:00 on Friday (last admissions at 19:30)
during special exhibition periods only
Mondays (If a National Holiday falls on a Monday, themuseum is open on that day and closed the following
day instead.)Year-end holidays and New Year's Day (December 27 January 1)
Adults: 420 yen (group rate - 210)
University/College/High school students: 130 yen(group rate - 70)
Junior High school students and under: Free

Materials
building●Research
Since 1979 we have been systematically carrying out a comprehensive surveyof the cultural properties of selected temples and shrines in Kyoto, to gather
information to be used to promote museum programs.
At present, we are carrying out research on the cultural properties of the Kenninji Temple and its sub-temples. The results of our research on temples andshrines are published in the series "Research Reports on Temples and Shrines"(23 volumes in all published so far).

The Kyoto National Museum houses treasures cultural heritage from shrines and temples inand around Kyoto since it was established, and The number of works and historical materials
involving Kyoto culture has also been increasing from year to year through purchase anddonation.
The Kyoto National Museum is also home to the Conservation Center for Cultural Properties,
which was set up as a first integrated facility to repair cultural property in Japan in 1980.

Hours

Admissions

Research activities■ Collection，preservation and restoration of cultural properties

Visitor information

Closed●Publications
We publish a variety of materials, including the annual Kyoto Museum Bulletin and catalogues of the collections.

●Special exhibitions
Special and joint exhibitions are held at the Special Exhibition Hall.
・Shohaku Show
(April 12− May 15)
・SAKAMOTO RYOMA : A Modren Hero in a Time of Revolution(July 16−August 28)
・Faith and Syncretism : Saicho and Treasures of Tendai(October 8− November 20)

1897 The Museum was established as the Imperial Museum of
Kyoto.
1900 The Museum was renamed the Imperial Household
Museum of Kyoto.
1924 The Museum was donated to the City of Kyoto andrenamed the Imperial Gift Museum of Kyoto.
1952 The Museum was placed under the authority of the national
government and became an institution affiliated with theCommittee for the Preservation of Cultural Properties.
Renamed the Kyoto National Museum.
1966 The present Collection Hall was completed.
1969 The Special Exhibition Hall, Main Gate, ticket booth, andfences were designated important cultural properties under
the name of the former Imperial Museum of Kyoto.
1973 The first session of the Saturday Lecture Series was held.
1979 The Conservation Center for Cultural Properties wascompleted.
2001 The South Gate was constructed as a part of a new
construction project for the 100th Year Anniversary Hall(tentative name).
2001 The Museum became the Kyoto National Museum of the
Independent Administrative Institution National Museum.

Kyo t o

Activities of the individual national museums

National Museum
Number of art objects owned by the museum:
6,238 (27 National Treasures and 181 Important Cultural
Properties)
Number of art objects on loan:
6,142 (83 National Treasures and 628 Important Cultural
Properties)(as of March 31, 2005)

At the Kyoto National Museum we conduct avariety of activities related to cultural properties
from the Heian to the Edo period in Kyoto.

Kyoto National Museum

Brief history
At the Kyoto National Museum, we aim to evolve in the Kyoto area where time-honored traditions
have been inherited. The cultural arts that flourished in this ancient capital spread to the rest ofJapan, creating artistic expressions after defined as "Japanese".
While balancing the aspect of collection, preservation, restoration, study and research with that ofexhibitions and educational activities, we hope the museum can provide a comfortable andenjoyable space for the public.

Location:
527 Chayamachi, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto City,

Important Cultural Property
Folding Screen with Flowers
and Birds Four Seasons(Kyoto National Museum)Kyoto Prefecture 605-0931
Phone: 075-541-1151
http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/

Executive Director, Kyoto National Museum

SASAKI Johei

Educational activities

Exhibition activities●Activities for students
・Preparation of explanatory sheets about art
objects (The Museum Dictionary) for elementary and junior high-school students,
with postings on our web site
・Lectures and seminars for elementary and middle school students (The Museum Children's Club) in collaboration with thematic exhibitions
・Painting contest
・Museum workshops for middle-school students●Regular exhibitions
Regular exhibitions are held in The Collections Hall. Art and craft objects produced through theages, up to the early years of the modern era, are displayed under the categories of Paintings,
Sculpture, Applied Arts, Calligraphy, and Archaeological find. The exhibits are changed
periodically (about 50 times a year) to display about 2000 objects in total per year.
Thematic exhibitions
Thematic exhibitions are held in a section of the regular exhibition space, developing aparticular theme.
・New Acquisitions(June 1 - July 3)

・Tracing the History of the Ji Sect: Celebrating 1200 Years of Choraku-ji Temple

Regular exhibition(July 13 - August 21)
・Japanese Poetry and Art: 1100 Years of Kokinshu, 800 Years of Shinkokinshu(November 23 - December 25)
・Master Swords from Temples and Shrines in Kyoto(January 2 - February 12, 2006)

・Sculptures of Shinto Deities and Guardian Lions and Lion Dogs
(January 2 - March 26, 2006)
・Girls' Day and Dolls

Training course in museum science(February 18 - April 2, 2006)

・Commemorating the Restoration of the Myoken-ji Temple Documents(March 1 - April 2, 2006)

Special Feature：Buddhist images and photographs●Cooperation with Kyoto University for graduate programs
As full or associate professors at the Kyoto University Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, our curators hold seminars and give lectures.
●Seminars and lectures
・Saturday lecture series (about 45 times ayear)
Every Saturday our curators give lectures
about exhibitions and exhibits.
・Summer seminars (July 27 - 29)
Lectures are delivered under the theme of"Replication and CreationⅢ."
・International symposium centered around thespecial exhibition, " Faith and Syncretism :Saicho and Treasures of Tendai " (November
12)

Summer seminar

Free admission days:
Admission to regular and thematic exhibitions is free on the 2nd
and 4th Saturday of each month.

N

North Gate

North
Repository

East
Repository

Maruike Pond

Special Exhibition Hall

Technical
Materials Center
Parking lot
Entrance

Shichijo Street
To JR's Kintetsu Kyoto Station
Sanjusagendo Temple

Kyoto Rakugo Museum

South Gate

Exit

Tee room

Higashi-oji Street

Main Gate

To Kiyomizutera
templeGate

LectureHall

Administrationbuilding

Collection Hall

Center for the Conservationof Cultural Properties

Conservation Center for Cultural Properties●Rakugo at the Museum
Rakugo is traditional Japanese comic storytelling. We host Rakugo performances four times
a year, once during each season, based on seasonal themes.
Lectures and concerts are also held at the museum.

※Prices in parentheses are for people in groups of 20 or more.
※Special exhibitions required separate admissions※People with disabilities and one companion are admitted free of charge.
※Regular exhibitions are free of charge to those 70 years old and over.

Yamato-oji Street

Other activities

9:30 - 17:00 (last admissions at 16:30)
9:30 - 20:00 on Friday (last admissions at 19:30)
during special exhibition periods only
Mondays (If a National Holiday falls on a Monday, themuseum is open on that day and closed the following
day instead.)Year-end holidays and New Year's Day (December 27 January 1)
Adults: 420 yen (group rate - 210)
University/College/High school students: 130 yen(group rate - 70)
Junior High school students and under: Free

Materials
building●Research
Since 1979 we have been systematically carrying out a comprehensive surveyof the cultural properties of selected temples and shrines in Kyoto, to gather
information to be used to promote museum programs.
At present, we are carrying out research on the cultural properties of the Kenninji Temple and its sub-temples. The results of our research on temples andshrines are published in the series "Research Reports on Temples and Shrines"(23 volumes in all published so far).

The Kyoto National Museum houses treasures cultural heritage from shrines and temples inand around Kyoto since it was established, and The number of works and historical materials
involving Kyoto culture has also been increasing from year to year through purchase anddonation.
The Kyoto National Museum is also home to the Conservation Center for Cultural Properties,
which was set up as a first integrated facility to repair cultural property in Japan in 1980.

Hours

Admissions

Research activities■ Collection，preservation and restoration of cultural properties

Visitor information

Closed●Publications
We publish a variety of materials, including the annual Kyoto Museum Bulletin and catalogues of the collections.

●Special exhibitions
Special and joint exhibitions are held at the Special Exhibition Hall.
・Shohaku Show
(April 12− May 15)
・SAKAMOTO RYOMA : A Modren Hero in a Time of Revolution(July 16−August 28)
・Faith and Syncretism : Saicho and Treasures of Tendai(October 8− November 20)

1897 The Museum was established as the Imperial Museum of
Kyoto.
1900 The Museum was renamed the Imperial Household
Museum of Kyoto.
1924 The Museum was donated to the City of Kyoto andrenamed the Imperial Gift Museum of Kyoto.
1952 The Museum was placed under the authority of the national
government and became an institution affiliated with theCommittee for the Preservation of Cultural Properties.
Renamed the Kyoto National Museum.
1966 The present Collection Hall was completed.
1969 The Special Exhibition Hall, Main Gate, ticket booth, andfences were designated important cultural properties under
the name of the former Imperial Museum of Kyoto.
1973 The first session of the Saturday Lecture Series was held.
1979 The Conservation Center for Cultural Properties wascompleted.
2001 The South Gate was constructed as a part of a new
construction project for the 100th Year Anniversary Hall(tentative name).
2001 The Museum became the Kyoto National Museum of the
Independent Administrative Institution National Museum.

N a r a

Activities of the individual national museums

National Museum
Number of art objects owned by the museum:
1,727 (12 National Treasures and 95 Important
Cultural Properties)
Number of borrowed art objects:
1,946 (52 National Treasures and 325 Important
Cultural Properties)(as of March 31, 2005)

The museum has long been deeply involved incollecting and preserving cultural properties,
including Buddhist art, as well as conducting
research and providing education.

Nara National Museum

Brief history
1889

Executive Director, Nara National Museum

Location:

1895
1900

50 Noborioji-cho, Nara, 630-8213
Sitting Aizen Myo-o(Nara National Museum)

Phone: 0742-22-7771

1914
1947

http://www.narahaku.go.jp/

1950

YUYAMA Ken'ichi

1952
1968
1969

Exhibitions

Educational activities●Regular exhibitions
A regular exhibition under the name "Masterpieces of Buddhist Art" is held in the Original
Museum Building and the West Wing.
The Main Building features a wide range of Japanese sculptures primarily from the Asuka to
the Kamakura period (6th - 14th centuries), prototypical sculptures from Gandhara, China andthe Korean Peninsula, and a collection of bronze vessels from ancient China.
In the West Wing there are also displays of paintings, calligraphy, decorative arts andarcheological objects.
The regular exhibits are changed periodically (about 19 times a year) to display over 600
attractive cultural properties, such as the standing Yakushi-nyorai from Toshodai-ji (National
Treasure) and sculptures in Tempyo era from Horyu-ji.
Thematic exhibitions
Thematic exhibitions are small-scale exhibitions in various fields.
・The Buddhist Sculptors of Shukuin (Shukuin Busshi) (May 28 - July 10)
・Shoso-in Treasures in Reproduction (September 20-October 10)
・The water-drawing ceremony (February 14-March 21,2006)

Special feature"SHINTO ART FROM NARA
Treasures of Tanzan Shrine"Children's Gallery
An exhibition to introduce Buddhist art to elementary and middle school students
・The Lotus: Flower of Buddhism (July 26-September 4)●Special exhibitions
・Japanese Archeology - The Age of the Dawning of our Culture (March 23 - May 8,2005)
・Ko-Mikkyo : The Incipient Stages of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism (July 26-September 4)・Cultural Crossing-Tang Art and the Japanese Envoys(September 20-October 10)
・The 57th Annual Exhibition of Shoso-in Treasures(October 29-November 14)
・Treasures of Kanazawa-Bunko (tentative title) (December 3-January 15, 2006)
・Saint Kokei (tentative title) (December 3-January 15, 2006)●Education
In keeping with the movement toward lifelong study, the 5-day-a-week schoolschedule, and new curriculum guidelines from the government, we offer a variety of educational activities to help visitors deepen their understanding of
cultural properties. We also offer various programs to help curators at public
and private museums and art museums improve their professional skills, andprovide a training course for people who want to be qualified as curators.
①Gathering and disseminating information and materials about cultural properties.
②Programs for students and pupils:
Setting up a cultural properties school for family to attend together and activities to promote understanding of the museum.
③Lectures and seminars:
Setting up Gallery Talks, extensions, summer seminars, symposia about special exhibitions④Training course for museum science⑤Enhancement of volunteer activities

Training in museum science
Special exhibition"Treasures from Itsukushima
Shrine"Collection, preservation and restoration of cultural properties
To prevent the dispersion of tangible cultural properties, valuable assets of the Japanese people,
we pursue the collection of tangible cultural properties through purchase, donation andborrowing.
We pay close attention to the environment in which collected cultural properties are displayed
and preserved, carefully controlling the temperature and humidity at all times.
Many Japanese cultural properties are made of fragile materials such as wood and paper, and it
is extremely important to consider means of passing them down as intact as possible tosucceeding generations. In 2002 we established the Conservation Center of the Nara National
Museum, a facility for preserving and repairing cultural properties.

1980
1995
1997
2000
2001

Visitor information
Hours

9:30 - 17:00 (last admissions at 16:30)
9:30 - 19:00 on Friday (no new admissions after 18:30)
during the period from the last Friday of April thru
October, August 13-15, December 17,January
8,February 3,March 12.

＊During "The 57th Annual Exhibition of Shoso-in Treasures" period
9:00 - 18:00 Tuesday thru Friday (last admission at 17:30)
9:00 - 19:00 on Friday (last admission at 18:30)

ClosedAdmissios

Research activities
The results of research by the museum concerning cultural properties are reflected in regular and special exhibitions.
Research enlivens the contents of those exhibitions, and thus we always emphasize research activities.
In fiscal 2005 the Nara National Museum conducted the research listed below,
with good success.
①Systemic research on shrines and temples in Nara
②Research on Asian art overseas③Research on objects unearthed from ancient temples in Nara (joint researchwith the Tezukayama University Archeological Institute)④Research on Buddhist paintings (joint research with the National ResearchInstitute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo)⑤Collection of and research on photographs of Buddhist art⑥Academic exchanges with the Korean National Gyeongju Museum, The
Shanghai China Museum, and the
National Museum of China (Beijin).

●Traveling exhibitions
Traveling exhibition in fiscal 2005 is scheduled at Kanagawa prefectual Kanazawa-Bunko
Museum.
・Treasures of Nara National Museum

Mondays (If a National Holiday falls on a Monday, themuseum is open on that day and closed the following
day instead.)Year-end holidays and New Year's Day (December 28- January 1)
Adults: 420 yen (group rate - 210)
University/College/High school students: 130 yen(group rate - 70)
Junior High school students and under: Free

※ Prices in parentheses are for people in groups of 20 or more.
※ Special exhibitions required separate admissions※ People with disabilities and one companion are admitted free of charge.
※ Regular exhibitions are free of charge to those 70 years old and over.

to Kintetsu Nara Station

to Todaiji
temple

Nob
or

ioji
Str
eet

Entrance Original

Entrance

Museum Building

Lower Level Passageway
Entrance
Entrance

to Kohfukuji
templeWest Wing

Tea Ceremony
House, Hassoan
Sanjo Street"Daiitoku Myo-o"
New acquisition in 2004

12

1972

The Museum was established as the Imperial
Museum of Nara.
The Museum held its first exhibition.
The Museum was renamed the Imperial Household
Museum of Nara.
The Shosoin department was established.
The Museum was transferred from the authority of theImperial Household Ministry to the Ministry of
Education.
The Museum became an institution affiliated with theCommittee for the Preservation of Cultural Properties.
Renamed the Nara National Museum.
Became affiliated with the Agency for Cultural Affairs.
The Original Museum Building was designated an
important cultural property.
A new exhibition building (the West Wing) wascompleted.
The Buddhist Art Library was opened.
A ceremony to celebrate the 100th anniversary of theMuseum's opening was held.
The East Wing and the underground corridor werecompleted.
The Conservation Center for preserving culturalproperties was completed.
The Museum became the Nara National Museum of
the Independent Administrative Institution National
Museum.

N

Nara National Museum has involved in collecting and preserving cultural properties including
Buddhist arts, as well as conducting researches, providing educational activities since it was open
in 1895. We have presented the artistries of Buddhist culture and its background history incooperation with shrines and temples nearby. In the years ahead, we intend to enhance our routine
activities, preservation of cultural properties, as well as internationalization and computerization.
With an awareness that we are bases for the Nara cultures, we hope to be the approachable museumwith the mind-set of the public.

Research activity

13

Kasuga Sando

East Wing

Conservation
CenterBuddhist Art Library
to Kasuga
Taisha shrineN a r a

Activities of the individual national museums

National Museum
Number of art objects owned by the museum:
1,727 (12 National Treasures and 95 Important
Cultural Properties)
Number of borrowed art objects:
1,946 (52 National Treasures and 325 Important
Cultural Properties)(as of March 31, 2005)

The museum has long been deeply involved incollecting and preserving cultural properties,
including Buddhist art, as well as conducting
research and providing education.

Nara National Museum

Brief history
1889

Executive Director, Nara National Museum

Location:

1895
1900

50 Noborioji-cho, Nara, 630-8213
Sitting Aizen Myo-o(Nara National Museum)

Phone: 0742-22-7771

1914
1947

http://www.narahaku.go.jp/

1950

YUYAMA Ken'ichi

1952
1968
1969

Exhibitions

Educational activities●Regular exhibitions
A regular exhibition under the name "Masterpieces of Buddhist Art" is held in the Original
Museum Building and the West Wing.
The Main Building features a wide range of Japanese sculptures primarily from the Asuka to
the Kamakura period (6th - 14th centuries), prototypical sculptures from Gandhara, China andthe Korean Peninsula, and a collection of bronze vessels from ancient China.
In the West Wing there are also displays of paintings, calligraphy, decorative arts andarcheological objects.
The regular exhibits are changed periodically (about 19 times a year) to display over 600
attractive cultural properties, such as the standing Yakushi-nyorai from Toshodai-ji (National
Treasure) and sculptures in Tempyo era from Horyu-ji.
Thematic exhibitions
Thematic exhibitions are small-scale exhibitions in various fields.
・The Buddhist Sculptors of Shukuin (Shukuin Busshi) (May 28 - July 10)
・Shoso-in Treasures in Reproduction (September 20-October 10)
・The water-drawing ceremony (February 14-March 21,2006)

Special feature"SHINTO ART FROM NARA
Treasures of Tanzan Shrine"Children's Gallery
An exhibition to introduce Buddhist art to elementary and middle school students
・The Lotus: Flower of Buddhism (July 26-September 4)●Special exhibitions
・Japanese Archeology - The Age of the Dawning of our Culture (March 23 - May 8,2005)
・Ko-Mikkyo : The Incipient Stages of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism (July 26-September 4)・Cultural Crossing-Tang Art and the Japanese Envoys(September 20-October 10)
・The 57th Annual Exhibition of Shoso-in Treasures(October 29-November 14)
・Treasures of Kanazawa-Bunko (tentative title) (December 3-January 15, 2006)
・Saint Kokei (tentative title) (December 3-January 15, 2006)●Education
In keeping with the movement toward lifelong study, the 5-day-a-week schoolschedule, and new curriculum guidelines from the government, we offer a variety of educational activities to help visitors deepen their understanding of
cultural properties. We also offer various programs to help curators at public
and private museums and art museums improve their professional skills, andprovide a training course for people who want to be qualified as curators.
①Gathering and disseminating information and materials about cultural properties.
②Programs for students and pupils:
Setting up a cultural properties school for family to attend together and activities to promote understanding of the museum.
③Lectures and seminars:
Setting up Gallery Talks, extensions, summer seminars, symposia about special exhibitions④Training course for museum science⑤Enhancement of volunteer activities

Training in museum science
Special exhibition"Treasures from Itsukushima
Shrine"Collection, preservation and restoration of cultural properties
To prevent the dispersion of tangible cultural properties, valuable assets of the Japanese people,
we pursue the collection of tangible cultural properties through purchase, donation andborrowing.
We pay close attention to the environment in which collected cultural properties are displayed
and preserved, carefully controlling the temperature and humidity at all times.
Many Japanese cultural properties are made of fragile materials such as wood and paper, and it
is extremely important to consider means of passing them down as intact as possible tosucceeding generations. In 2002 we established the Conservation Center of the Nara National
Museum, a facility for preserving and repairing cultural properties.

1980
1995
1997
2000
2001

Visitor information
Hours

9:30 - 17:00 (last admissions at 16:30)
9:30 - 19:00 on Friday (no new admissions after 18:30)
during the period from the last Friday of April thru
October, August 13-15, December 17,January
8,February 3,March 12.

＊During "The 57th Annual Exhibition of Shoso-in Treasures" period
9:00 - 18:00 Tuesday thru Friday (last admission at 17:30)
9:00 - 19:00 on Friday (last admission at 18:30)

ClosedAdmissios

Research activities
The results of research by the museum concerning cultural properties are reflected in regular and special exhibitions.
Research enlivens the contents of those exhibitions, and thus we always emphasize research activities.
In fiscal 2005 the Nara National Museum conducted the research listed below,
with good success.
①Systemic research on shrines and temples in Nara
②Research on Asian art overseas③Research on objects unearthed from ancient temples in Nara (joint researchwith the Tezukayama University Archeological Institute)④Research on Buddhist paintings (joint research with the National ResearchInstitute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo)⑤Collection of and research on photographs of Buddhist art⑥Academic exchanges with the Korean National Gyeongju Museum, The
Shanghai China Museum, and the
National Museum of China (Beijin).

●Traveling exhibitions
Traveling exhibition in fiscal 2005 is scheduled at Kanagawa prefectual Kanazawa-Bunko
Museum.
・Treasures of Nara National Museum

Mondays (If a National Holiday falls on a Monday, themuseum is open on that day and closed the following
day instead.)Year-end holidays and New Year's Day (December 28- January 1)
Adults: 420 yen (group rate - 210)
University/College/High school students: 130 yen(group rate - 70)
Junior High school students and under: Free

※ Prices in parentheses are for people in groups of 20 or more.
※ Special exhibitions required separate admissions※ People with disabilities and one companion are admitted free of charge.
※ Regular exhibitions are free of charge to those 70 years old and over.

to Kintetsu Nara Station

to Todaiji
temple

Nob
or

ioji
Str
eet

Entrance Original

Entrance

Museum Building

Lower Level Passageway
Entrance
Entrance

to Kohfukuji
templeWest Wing

Tea Ceremony
House, Hassoan
Sanjo Street"Daiitoku Myo-o"
New acquisition in 2004

12

1972

The Museum was established as the Imperial
Museum of Nara.
The Museum held its first exhibition.
The Museum was renamed the Imperial Household
Museum of Nara.
The Shosoin department was established.
The Museum was transferred from the authority of theImperial Household Ministry to the Ministry of
Education.
The Museum became an institution affiliated with theCommittee for the Preservation of Cultural Properties.
Renamed the Nara National Museum.
Became affiliated with the Agency for Cultural Affairs.
The Original Museum Building was designated an
important cultural property.
A new exhibition building (the West Wing) wascompleted.
The Buddhist Art Library was opened.
A ceremony to celebrate the 100th anniversary of theMuseum's opening was held.
The East Wing and the underground corridor werecompleted.
The Conservation Center for preserving culturalproperties was completed.
The Museum became the Nara National Museum of
the Independent Administrative Institution National
Museum.

N

Nara National Museum has involved in collecting and preserving cultural properties including
Buddhist arts, as well as conducting researches, providing educational activities since it was open
in 1895. We have presented the artistries of Buddhist culture and its background history incooperation with shrines and temples nearby. In the years ahead, we intend to enhance our routine
activities, preservation of cultural properties, as well as internationalization and computerization.
With an awareness that we are bases for the Nara cultures, we hope to be the approachable museumwith the mind-set of the public.

Research activity

13

Kasuga Sando

East Wing

Conservation
CenterBuddhist Art Library
to Kasuga
Taisha shrineKy u s h u

Activities of the individual national museums

National Museum
Number of art objects owned by the museum:65 (0 National Treasures and 0 Important Cultural
Properties)(as of March 31, 2005)

The idea behind the Kyushu National Museum is that the formation ofJapanese culture should be considered not only from the perspective of theJapanese Archipelago but also within the contextof Asian history.

Kyushu National Museum
In April the Kyushu National Museum is installed and the museum is finally open to the public in
October 16th in partnership with Fukuoka prefecture. We are planning to provide the enjoyablefacilities both children and adults under the idea that the formation of Japanese culture should beconsidered within the context of Asian history.
Visitors can appreciate the long cultural history between Japan and Asian countries, while children
enjoy a huge variety of Asian culture. In this museum, curators will find opportunities to pursue
museum science and be involved in international exchanges. We also intend to contribute to our
local communities through our activities. We will do our best to attain these goals, trying to be atransparent and accessible museum.

Brief history
1994

Location:
4-7-2, Ishizaka, Dazaifu City,

1995

Fukuoka Prefercture 818-0118
Phone: 092-918-2807
1997

http://www.kyuhaku.jp/
A Christian shrine with design of flowers andbirds in maki-e lacquer and mother-of-pearl
inlay(Kyushu National Museum)

Executive Director, Kyushu National Museum MIWA Karoku

1998
1999

Exhibitions activities

Exhibition activities●Main Exhibitions(Regular exhibitions)
Main Exhibition（Regular exhibition）which stands for the concept of the Kyushu National
Museum starts as an exhibition entitled" Cultural Interchange: Ocean Ways, Asian Paths" . The
exhibition shows how Japanese culture formed under the influence of Asia at a total of 3,900㎡
space (consists of the basic exhibition room at the center and the 14 related exhibition roomaround).
The exhibition is divided into 5 section by themes: 1" Jomon Culture: Ocean-Bound"(Paleolithic-the Jomon period), 2" Political Power: Cultivating Rice" (the Yayoi - the Kohun
period), 3" Nation Building: The Age of the Envoys" (the Nara - the Heian period),
4"Merchants of the Asian Seas" (the Kamakura - the Muromachi period), 5" Smaller World,
Closer West"(the Edo period)
With this exhibition, visitors can see the various exhibits including national treasures andimportant cultural properties. However, the museum do not only display the real things, butalso conduct programs for visitors to be the enjoyable museum for people at any age and any
nationality; a powerful movie on large-size monitor exclusively showing at Kyushu National
Museum, Educational programs with potable devices, Audio guide for the foreign visitors in 3
languages (English, Chinese and Korean) are designed.
Furthermore, we plan to change the exhibits 67times a year in fiscal 2005 so that visitors canappreciate the brand-new exhibits on every visit.

Thematic exhibition "Hop Step Kyuhaku"

Thematic exhibition "Hop Step Kyuhaku"(February 15- April 10, 2005)
Prior to open, we held the exhibition at the Tokyo National Museum to show our ardor for the
open of the Kyushu National Museum, and gathered over 40 thousand visitors.
●Special exhibitions
・2005 Inaugural exhibition "Japan, Country of Beauty" (October 16 - November 27, 2005)
This exhibition aims to highlight how enthusiastic Japan was to pursue beauty throughcovering the 2 periods when Kyushu dramatically developed. A number of national treasuresand important cultural properties will be on the view.
・" China-Crossroads of Culture" (January 1-April 2,2006)
This exhibition picks up the period between Han and Tang Dynasty, which is not often
researched so far and presents viable dynamic Chinese culture in that age.

Collection, preservation and repair of cultural properties①Program at the Educational exhibition room, "AJIPPA""AJIPPA" is the educational exhibition room. There visitors can experience
the ethnic cultures which have interaction with Japan historically.
The museum develops and practice activities as follows:
・Educational kits
・Programs by junior curators (consist of from junior-high school throughuniversity students)
・Programs jointly operated with schools.
・Programs which visitors can have firsthand experience of the activities ofthe museum.
②Acceptance of volunteers
We conduct basic and specialty training forvolunteers to enhance commentary of exhibits,
guide for the museum, education, IPM(integrated pest management) and events.
③Edit of children's guide book for Inaugural
Exhibition.
④Improvement of the website's educational
section
AJIPPA⑤Academic exchanges
・Holding of international symposiums
・Development of partnership among affiliate museums to enhanceinternational exchange⑥InternshipTo improve the acceptance mechanism ofinternship, we form an alliance with
universities.

2000
2001
2002
2003

2004
2005

ACA (Agency for Cultural Affairs) created "TheCommittee to Investigate the Establishment of a New
Type of Museum" .
It was decided that the name of the new museum
would be the Kyushu National Museum (tentativename) and Dazaifu City was selected as thecandidate site.
The Committee compiled "A Basic Statement of
Policy for the Kyushu National Museum" (tentativename).
The Committee worked out "A Basic Plan for the
Kyushu National Museum" (tentative name).
ACA, Fukuoka Prefecture and the Incorporated
Foundation to Promote the Kyushu National Museum(hereafter called the "Foundation") completed "TheBasic Construction Design". An "Expert Conference
to Prepare for the Construction of the Kyushu
National Museum", set up jointly with ACA andFukuoka Prefecture, worked out "The Regular
Exhibition Plan".
ACA, Fukuoka Prefecture and the Foundation jointly
completed "The Design for Implementing
Construction " and " The Basic Exhibition Design."
ACA, Fukuoka Prefecture and the Foundation jointly
started "The Construction Phase" (1st part of a 3-yearplan).
The Independent Administrative Institution andFukuoka Prefecture jointly completed " The
Implementation of Exhibition Design."
The Independent Administrative Institution andFukuoka Prefecture jointly started "The Exhibition
Phase" (1st part of a 2-year plan) and completed"The Construction Phase."
The building was completed.
The Museum became the Kyushu National Museumof the Independent Administrative Institution National
Museum.

Visitor information
Hours
Closed

9:30 - 17:00 (last admissions at 16:30)
Mondays (If a National Holiday falls on a Monday, themuseum is open on that day and closed the following
day instead.)
December 26-31※ The museum is generally open during "Japan，Country ofBeauty" period（October 16 - November 27, 2005)

Admissios

Adults: 420 yen (group rate - 210)
University/College/High school students: 130 yen(group rate - 70)
Junior High school students and under: Free

Tomb
Research activities Decorated
Data Base

Inaugural Exhibition"Japan, Country of Beauty"

３５
Prefectural Road Kyushu
National Museum Line

Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine

Kyushu National Museum
Dazaifu Approach to Dazaifu
Tenmangu Shrine
Sta.

azaif
u Lin
e

14

15

P

Moving Walkway

hitetsuD"Three Martyrs"
New acquisition in 2004

※Prices in parentheses are for people in groups of 20 or more.
※ Special exhibitions required separate admissions※ People with disabilities and one companion are admitted free of charge.
※ Regular exhibitions are free of charge to those 70 years old and over.

Nis●New acquisitions in fiscal 2004
In fiscal 2004, we collect 9 art objects including followings.
・"Three Martyrs"
The painting depicts a martyrdom of 26 Christians in Nagasaki in the late 16th century, andonly three Christians were depicted here by a contemporary European painter.
・"Diplomatic documents kept by the So clan"
These documents record the diplomatic transactions between Korean Government and the
So Clan in Tsushima, Nagasaki, during the Edo period.
●Restorations
The Museum plans to restore the "Three Martyrs," as well as Jomon wares, partially affectedby earth quakes, that will be put on display on the 4th floor during the first six weeks after theofficial opening.

●Decorated Tomb Data Base
As research progress concerned with advanced informatization, we havestarted to post Decorated Tomb Data Base on our website. This system enablesaudience to view precision image of the decorative tombs, which wasprevalent throughout from north to middle Kyushu in 5-6th century, while
searching by map, design and name. Some of the tombs can be seen by aerial
photos and reproductions with an 3-D feeling, abounding with realistic
touches to study how and where in the tomb decorations was drawn.
●Museum Science
The temperature, humidity and air quality which may affect cultural propertiesare continuously determined and analyzed to maintain the optimal
environment for displaying and restoring the cultural properties. In terms ofthe global environment, we take the IPM: the pest control by least chemical
method. For example, we bring nitrogen gas into use for the extermination ofharmful insects.
Moreover, we begin the instrumental research such as X-ray photography sothat we can comprehend the states of the cultural properties and reflect it inour restoration.

West Side Access

Komyozenji Temple
Kyushu HistoricalMuseumP

７６

Prefectural Road
Tsukushino-Dazaifu LineHaru
to TakaoKy u s h u

Activities of the individual national museums

National Museum
Number of art objects owned by the museum:65 (0 National Treasures and 0 Important Cultural
Properties)(as of March 31, 2005)

The idea behind the Kyushu National Museum is that the formation ofJapanese culture should be considered not only from the perspective of theJapanese Archipelago but also within the contextof Asian history.

Kyushu National Museum
In April the Kyushu National Museum is installed and the museum is finally open to the public in
October 16th in partnership with Fukuoka prefecture. We are planning to provide the enjoyablefacilities both children and adults under the idea that the formation of Japanese culture should beconsidered within the context of Asian history.
Visitors can appreciate the long cultural history between Japan and Asian countries, while children
enjoy a huge variety of Asian culture. In this museum, curators will find opportunities to pursue
museum science and be involved in international exchanges. We also intend to contribute to our
local communities through our activities. We will do our best to attain these goals, trying to be atransparent and accessible museum.

Brief history
1994

Location:
4-7-2, Ishizaka, Dazaifu City,

1995

Fukuoka Prefercture 818-0118
Phone: 092-918-2807
1997

http://www.kyuhaku.jp/
A Christian shrine with design of flowers andbirds in maki-e lacquer and mother-of-pearl
inlay(Kyushu National Museum)

Executive Director, Kyushu National Museum MIWA Karoku

1998
1999

Exhibitions activities

Exhibition activities●Main Exhibitions(Regular exhibitions)
Main Exhibition（Regular exhibition）which stands for the concept of the Kyushu National
Museum starts as an exhibition entitled" Cultural Interchange: Ocean Ways, Asian Paths" . The
exhibition shows how Japanese culture formed under the influence of Asia at a total of 3,900㎡
space (consists of the basic exhibition room at the center and the 14 related exhibition roomaround).
The exhibition is divided into 5 section by themes: 1" Jomon Culture: Ocean-Bound"(Paleolithic-the Jomon period), 2" Political Power: Cultivating Rice" (the Yayoi - the Kohun
period), 3" Nation Building: The Age of the Envoys" (the Nara - the Heian period),
4"Merchants of the Asian Seas" (the Kamakura - the Muromachi period), 5" Smaller World,
Closer West"(the Edo period)
With this exhibition, visitors can see the various exhibits including national treasures andimportant cultural properties. However, the museum do not only display the real things, butalso conduct programs for visitors to be the enjoyable museum for people at any age and any
nationality; a powerful movie on large-size monitor exclusively showing at Kyushu National
Museum, Educational programs with potable devices, Audio guide for the foreign visitors in 3
languages (English, Chinese and Korean) are designed.
Furthermore, we plan to change the exhibits 67times a year in fiscal 2005 so that visitors canappreciate the brand-new exhibits on every visit.

Thematic exhibition "Hop Step Kyuhaku"

Thematic exhibition "Hop Step Kyuhaku"(February 15- April 10, 2005)
Prior to open, we held the exhibition at the Tokyo National Museum to show our ardor for the
open of the Kyushu National Museum, and gathered over 40 thousand visitors.
●Special exhibitions
・2005 Inaugural exhibition "Japan, Country of Beauty" (October 16 - November 27, 2005)
This exhibition aims to highlight how enthusiastic Japan was to pursue beauty throughcovering the 2 periods when Kyushu dramatically developed. A number of national treasuresand important cultural properties will be on the view.
・" China-Crossroads of Culture" (January 1-April 2,2006)
This exhibition picks up the period between Han and Tang Dynasty, which is not often
researched so far and presents viable dynamic Chinese culture in that age.

Collection, preservation and repair of cultural properties①Program at the Educational exhibition room, "AJIPPA""AJIPPA" is the educational exhibition room. There visitors can experience
the ethnic cultures which have interaction with Japan historically.
The museum develops and practice activities as follows:
・Educational kits
・Programs by junior curators (consist of from junior-high school throughuniversity students)
・Programs jointly operated with schools.
・Programs which visitors can have firsthand experience of the activities ofthe museum.
②Acceptance of volunteers
We conduct basic and specialty training forvolunteers to enhance commentary of exhibits,
guide for the museum, education, IPM(integrated pest management) and events.
③Edit of children's guide book for Inaugural
Exhibition.
④Improvement of the website's educational
section
AJIPPA⑤Academic exchanges
・Holding of international symposiums
・Development of partnership among affiliate museums to enhanceinternational exchange⑥InternshipTo improve the acceptance mechanism ofinternship, we form an alliance with
universities.

2000
2001
2002
2003

2004
2005

ACA (Agency for Cultural Affairs) created "TheCommittee to Investigate the Establishment of a New
Type of Museum" .
It was decided that the name of the new museum
would be the Kyushu National Museum (tentativename) and Dazaifu City was selected as thecandidate site.
The Committee compiled "A Basic Statement of
Policy for the Kyushu National Museum" (tentativename).
The Committee worked out "A Basic Plan for the
Kyushu National Museum" (tentative name).
ACA, Fukuoka Prefecture and the Incorporated
Foundation to Promote the Kyushu National Museum(hereafter called the "Foundation") completed "TheBasic Construction Design". An "Expert Conference
to Prepare for the Construction of the Kyushu
National Museum", set up jointly with ACA andFukuoka Prefecture, worked out "The Regular
Exhibition Plan".
ACA, Fukuoka Prefecture and the Foundation jointly
completed "The Design for Implementing
Construction " and " The Basic Exhibition Design."
ACA, Fukuoka Prefecture and the Foundation jointly
started "The Construction Phase" (1st part of a 3-yearplan).
The Independent Administrative Institution andFukuoka Prefecture jointly completed " The
Implementation of Exhibition Design."
The Independent Administrative Institution andFukuoka Prefecture jointly started "The Exhibition
Phase" (1st part of a 2-year plan) and completed"The Construction Phase."
The building was completed.
The Museum became the Kyushu National Museumof the Independent Administrative Institution National
Museum.

Visitor information
Hours
Closed

9:30 - 17:00 (last admissions at 16:30)
Mondays (If a National Holiday falls on a Monday, themuseum is open on that day and closed the following
day instead.)
December 26-31※ The museum is generally open during "Japan，Country ofBeauty" period（October 16 - November 27, 2005)

Admissios

Adults: 420 yen (group rate - 210)
University/College/High school students: 130 yen(group rate - 70)
Junior High school students and under: Free

Tomb
Research activities Decorated
Data Base

Inaugural Exhibition"Japan, Country of Beauty"

３５
Prefectural Road Kyushu
National Museum Line

Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine

Kyushu National Museum
Dazaifu Approach to Dazaifu
Tenmangu Shrine
Sta.

azaif
u Lin
e

14

15

P

Moving Walkway

hitetsuD"Three Martyrs"
New acquisition in 2004

※Prices in parentheses are for people in groups of 20 or more.
※ Special exhibitions required separate admissions※ People with disabilities and one companion are admitted free of charge.
※ Regular exhibitions are free of charge to those 70 years old and over.

Nis●New acquisitions in fiscal 2004
In fiscal 2004, we collect 9 art objects including followings.
・"Three Martyrs"
The painting depicts a martyrdom of 26 Christians in Nagasaki in the late 16th century, andonly three Christians were depicted here by a contemporary European painter.
・"Diplomatic documents kept by the So clan"
These documents record the diplomatic transactions between Korean Government and the
So Clan in Tsushima, Nagasaki, during the Edo period.
●Restorations
The Museum plans to restore the "Three Martyrs," as well as Jomon wares, partially affectedby earth quakes, that will be put on display on the 4th floor during the first six weeks after theofficial opening.

●Decorated Tomb Data Base
As research progress concerned with advanced informatization, we havestarted to post Decorated Tomb Data Base on our website. This system enablesaudience to view precision image of the decorative tombs, which wasprevalent throughout from north to middle Kyushu in 5-6th century, while
searching by map, design and name. Some of the tombs can be seen by aerial
photos and reproductions with an 3-D feeling, abounding with realistic
touches to study how and where in the tomb decorations was drawn.
●Museum Science
The temperature, humidity and air quality which may affect cultural propertiesare continuously determined and analyzed to maintain the optimal
environment for displaying and restoring the cultural properties. In terms ofthe global environment, we take the IPM: the pest control by least chemical
method. For example, we bring nitrogen gas into use for the extermination ofharmful insects.
Moreover, we begin the instrumental research such as X-ray photography sothat we can comprehend the states of the cultural properties and reflect it inour restoration.

West Side Access

Komyozenji Temple
Kyushu HistoricalMuseumP

７６

Prefectural Road
Tsukushino-Dazaifu LineHaru
to TakaoOperation of the
National Museum

National
MuseumOperation of the National Museum

Organization chart of the Kyoto National Museum

1

Cooperation with outside organizations and people① The supporting members system
To continue the operation of the museum, the National Museum needs to make self-help efforts as well as
solidify its financial base by obtaining support from a wide range of outside organizations and people.
For this reason, the Tokyo and Nara national museums have supporting member systems and the Kyoto
National Museum has a supporting incorporated body called Seifukai.

Executive
Director

Executive Vice
Director

Head of Public
Relations Division

Public Relations
Assistant

Head of Public Relations
Head of Financial Affairs
Head of Facilities and Operations
Head of Security
Senior Public Relations Officer
Senior Facilities and Operations Officer② Friends of the Museum
The purpose of this program is to make the museum more enjoyable and attractive, and enable people toparticipate in various programs at the museum.
The plan is operated independently by each national museum so that they can respond to the individual needsof their regions.

Head of Curatorial
Division

Senior Curator, Department of Exhibition and Publicity
Senior Curator, Department of Education
Senior Curator, Department of Fine Arts
Senior Curator, Department of Decorative and Applied Arts

※ For details, see page 25.

Senior Curator, Department of Archaeology
Cultural Properties Administrator

2

Senior Curator, Department of Registration and Image Archives

Head of Cultural
Resources Division

Organization and number of staff at each museum (as of April 1, 2005)

Senior Curator, Department of Information Resources
Senior Curator, Department of Conservation and Restoration① Organization
Organization chart of the Independent Administrative Institution National Museum and the National Museum Secretariat
Chairmanof theBoard ofDirectors

National
Museum Secretariat
Councilor on Curatorial Affairs
Directors(3)Auditors(2)Secretary- General

Tokyo National Museum
Kyoto National Museum
Nara National Museum
Kyushu National Museum

Supervisor,

Senior Manager

Manager (General Affairs)

General Affairs Section(General Affairs/ Human Resources)

Manager (Human Resources)

Senior Manager

Manager (Planning)(Planning and Assessment)

Manager (Research Promotion)

Supervisor,

Manager (Auditing/ Financial Analysis)

Asset Management

Manager (Asset Management)

Organization chart of the Nara National Museum
Executive
Director

Executive Vice
Director

Supervisor,
Public Relations

Manager, General Affairs

Assistant Supervisor

Manager, AccountManager, Facilities and Operations

Supervisor,
Curator Division
Executive
Director

Executive
Vice
Director

Director of
Business
Development

Advisor to the
Executive Director

Supervisor,
Accountant/Contract

Supervisor
External Affairs

Director ofPlanning andDevelopment

Supervisor, Planning andDevelopment

Manager, Business Development

Senior Manager,
External Affairs

Organization chart of the Tokyo National Museum

Manager, Visitors Service

Senior Manager, Planning

Chief, Security

Senior Manager, Information Service

Manager (Accountant)Senior Manager, Education

Manager (Contract)
Senior Manager(Facilities andOperations)
Senior Manager,
External Affairs

Senior Manager, Materials

Manager(Facilities and Operations/
General Maintenance)
Manager (External Affairs and Business Development)

Senior Manager, Collection
Senior Manager, Fine Arts

Manager (Security and Public Services)

Senior Manager, Decorative Arts and Archeology

Visitor Service Center
Senior Manager, Special Exhibition Planning (Guards)
Senior Manger, Exhibition and Graphic Design

Senior Manager, Restoration Technology
Senior Researcher

Senior Manager, Publications
Senior Manager, International Relations
Supervisor, Education

Senior Manager, Education Programming
Senior Manager, Lectures and Educational Event Programming

Organization chart of the Kyushu National Museum

Kyushu National Museum is managed in cooperation with Fukuoka prefecture.

Senior Manager, Volunteer Services
Supervisor, Informatics

Senior Manager, Informatics Systems Management
Senior Manager, Library and Photo Archives

Executive
Director

Executive
Vice Director

Supervisor,
Public Relations

Senior Manager, Public Relations and Press

Manager, Public Relations
Manager, AccountManager, Facilities

Special Research Chair
Director ofCultural
Properties

Assistant
Supervisor

Supervisor,
Regular Exhibitions

Senior Manager, Regular Rotations

SeniorRegistrar's OfficeSenior Manager, Collection Documentation

Supervisor, Conservation

Senior Manager, Preventive Conservation

Special Research Chair

Senior Manager, Conservation Technology

Director ofCuratorial
Board

Senior Manager, Photography Studio
Senior Manager, Collection Management

Executive
Vice Director

Senior Curator/Director of
Exhibitions
Head of Conservation

Curator（Special Exhibition）

Senior Curator/Headof Cultural Property

Curator（Registration）

Curator（Exhibitions）
Curator（Conservation）
Curator（Restoration）
Curator（Management）

Operation of the
National Museum

National
MuseumOperation of the National Museum

Organization chart of the Kyoto National Museum

1

Cooperation with outside organizations and people① The supporting members system
To continue the operation of the museum, the National Museum needs to make self-help efforts as well as
solidify its financial base by obtaining support from a wide range of outside organizations and people.
For this reason, the Tokyo and Nara national museums have supporting member systems and the Kyoto
National Museum has a supporting incorporated body called Seifukai.

Executive
Director

Executive Vice
Director

Head of Public
Relations Division

Public Relations
Assistant

Head of Public Relations
Head of Financial Affairs
Head of Facilities and Operations
Head of Security
Senior Public Relations Officer
Senior Facilities and Operations Officer② Friends of the Museum
The purpose of this program is to make the museum more enjoyable and attractive, and enable people toparticipate in various programs at the museum.
The plan is operated independently by each national museum so that they can respond to the individual needsof their regions.

Head of Curatorial
Division

Senior Curator, Department of Exhibition and Publicity
Senior Curator, Department of Education
Senior Curator, Department of Fine Arts
Senior Curator, Department of Decorative and Applied Arts

※ For details, see page 25.

Senior Curator, Department of Archaeology
Cultural Properties Administrator

2

Senior Curator, Department of Registration and Image Archives

Head of Cultural
Resources Division

Organization and number of staff at each museum (as of April 1, 2005)

Senior Curator, Department of Information Resources
Senior Curator, Department of Conservation and Restoration① Organization
Organization chart of the Independent Administrative Institution National Museum and the National Museum Secretariat
Chairmanof theBoard ofDirectors

National
Museum Secretariat
Councilor on Curatorial Affairs
Directors(3)Auditors(2)Secretary- General

Tokyo National Museum
Kyoto National Museum
Nara National Museum
Kyushu National Museum

Supervisor,

Senior Manager

Manager (General Affairs)

General Affairs Section(General Affairs/ Human Resources)

Manager (Human Resources)

Senior Manager

Manager (Planning)(Planning and Assessment)

Manager (Research Promotion)

Supervisor,

Manager (Auditing/ Financial Analysis)

Asset Management

Manager (Asset Management)

Organization chart of the Nara National Museum
Executive
Director

Executive Vice
Director

Supervisor,
Public Relations

Manager, General Affairs

Assistant Supervisor

Manager, AccountManager, Facilities and Operations

Supervisor,
Curator Division
Executive
Director

Executive
Vice
Director

Director of
Business
Development

Advisor to the
Executive Director

Supervisor,
Accountant/Contract

Supervisor
External Affairs

Director ofPlanning andDevelopment

Supervisor, Planning andDevelopment

Manager, Business Development

Senior Manager,
External Affairs

Organization chart of the Tokyo National Museum

Manager, Visitors Service

Senior Manager, Planning

Chief, Security

Senior Manager, Information Service

Manager (Accountant)Senior Manager, Education

Manager (Contract)
Senior Manager(Facilities andOperations)
Senior Manager,
External Affairs

Senior Manager, Materials

Manager(Facilities and Operations/
General Maintenance)
Manager (External Affairs and Business Development)

Senior Manager, Collection
Senior Manager, Fine Arts

Manager (Security and Public Services)

Senior Manager, Decorative Arts and Archeology

Visitor Service Center
Senior Manager, Special Exhibition Planning (Guards)
Senior Manger, Exhibition and Graphic Design

Senior Manager, Restoration Technology
Senior Researcher

Senior Manager, Publications
Senior Manager, International Relations
Supervisor, Education

Senior Manager, Education Programming
Senior Manager, Lectures and Educational Event Programming

Organization chart of the Kyushu National Museum

Kyushu National Museum is managed in cooperation with Fukuoka prefecture.

Senior Manager, Volunteer Services
Supervisor, Informatics

Senior Manager, Informatics Systems Management
Senior Manager, Library and Photo Archives

Executive
Director

Executive
Vice Director

Supervisor,
Public Relations

Senior Manager, Public Relations and Press

Manager, Public Relations
Manager, AccountManager, Facilities

Special Research Chair
Director ofCultural
Properties

Assistant
Supervisor

Supervisor,
Regular Exhibitions

Senior Manager, Regular Rotations

SeniorRegistrar's OfficeSenior Manager, Collection Documentation

Supervisor, Conservation

Senior Manager, Preventive Conservation

Special Research Chair

Senior Manager, Conservation Technology

Director ofCuratorial
Board

Senior Manager, Photography Studio
Senior Manager, Collection Management

Executive
Vice Director

Senior Curator/Director of
Exhibitions
Head of Conservation

Curator（Special Exhibition）

Senior Curator/Headof Cultural Property

Curator（Registration）

Curator（Exhibitions）
Curator（Conservation）
Curator（Restoration）
Curator（Management）

Operation of the National Museum② Directors

The Chairman of the Board of Directors (Executive Director of the Tokyo National Museum) NOZAKI Hiroshi

KOBAYASHI Tadashi

Professor of Gakushuin University

SAKAI Tadayasu

Executive Director of Setagaya Art Museum

Director (Executive Director of the Kyoto National Museum)

SASAKI Johei

Director (Executive Director of the Nara National Museum)

YUYAMA Ken'ichi

FUJITA Haruhiko

Professor of Osaka University Graduate School

Director (Exective Director of the Kyushu National Museum)

MIWA Karoku

FUJIYOSHI Masaomi

Certified Public Accountant

Auditor (Director of National Association for Vitalization of Traditional Culture)

KUBONIWA Shin'ichi

MORI Hiroko

Committee of Fukuoka Prefecture Council for the Protection of Cultural Properties

SHINOHARA Hiroyoshi

YOKOSATO KoichiManaging Director of NHK Promotion

Auditor (Certified Public Accountant)

HANABUSA Masamichi Senior Adviser of Kajima Corporation(titles omitted)③ Board of Special Advisors
The National Museum Independent Administrative Institute is mandated to enhance the museums' publicappeal. To help attain this goal, we have a board of special advisors consisting of learned men drawn fromoutside the museum staff to gather various opinions from many fields.
The mission of the board of special advisors is to discuss important issues about the operation andmanagement of the National Museum and give advice to the executive director. The number of board members
is no more than 20 and their tenure is 2 years (renewable.) Generally, two meetings per year of the Board are
held.

Chairman

FUKUHARA Yoshiharu Honorary President of Shiseido

Vice-Chairman OONUMA Sunao

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bunka Gakuen

ABE Mitsuo

Chairman of the Board of Directors of for the Society for the Promotion of the University of Air

UENO Shoichi

Proprietor of the Asahi Shimbun Company

OOHASHI Yoji

Chairman of ANA

OGURA Kazuo

Adviser to the Japan Foundation

TANAKA Kazuo

President of JR Kyushu

CHINO Tadao

Adviser to the NOMURA Research Institution

TSUJI Nobuo

Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University

TSUJIMURA Taizen

Executive Director of Kohfukuji Research Institute for Cultural Properties

TSUJIMURA Tetsuo

Chairman of the Board of Director of IAI National Museum of Art

NAKAJIMA FumikoWriterHAKETA Shingo

Grand Steward of the Imperial Household Agency

Mari Christine
MINO Yutaka

Different Culture Communicator
Executive Director of 21st Century Museum of Art,Kanazawa

MORI Mayumi

Writer

REIZEI Tamehito

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Reizei Family Shigure-Tei Museum

WAKASUGI Yoriko

Governor of the Soroptimist International of Americas Japan Minami Region⑤ Board of Trustees
There are separate boards of trustees for each national museum. The duties of the boards are to discuss
important issues concerning the operation of the museum and give advice to its executive director.
Board of Trustees, the Tokyo National Museum
Chairman
OONUMA Sunao
Vice-Chairman TSUJI Nobuo
AOYAGI Masanori
ABE Mitsuo
URAI Masaaki
OOHASHI Hisayoshi
OOHASHI Yoji
KATO Masakatsu
SAITO Jyunji
SHIRO Yoshinori
CHINO Tadao
FUKUHARA Yoshiharu
FUTATSUGI Tadao
MAKI Miyako
Mari Christine
MIYATA Ryohei
MORI Mayumi
YOSHIZUMI Hiroshi

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bunka Gakuen
Professor Emeritus of The University of Tokyo
Executive Director of the National Museum of Western Art
Chairman of the Board of Directors of for the Society for the Promotion of the University of Air
Committee of Taito Ward Council for the Protection of Cultural Properties
Principal of Taito Ward Shibugaoka Junior-high School
Chairman of ANA
Principal of Taito Ward Negishi Elementary School
Station Master of JR Ueno Station
Principal of Tokyo-to Ueno Highschool
Adviser to the Nomura Research Institution
Honorary President of Shiseido
Chairman of Ueno Sightseeing League
Cartoonist
Different Culture Communicator
Vice-President of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
WriterChief of Taito Ward(titles omitted)

Board of Trustees, the Kyoto National Museum(titles omitted)④ Board of Outside Evaluation
The performance of the Independent Administrative Institution is evaluated during each fiscal year and during
the period of the mid-term plan. For this purpose, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science andTechnology maintains a Board of Assessment to evaluate the performance of Independent Administrative
Institutions, but the National Museum itself has a board of outside evaluation consisting of learned men fromoutside the Museum, for self-evaluation of the performance of its operation, to verify that performance, and to
submit an evaluation.
The Board of Outside Evaluation has the duty to evaluates the performance of the operation of the National
Museum and give advice to the Executive Director. The board holds meetings and conducts such inspections
as are required to perform evaluations as necessary.

Chairman

KOZEN Hiroshi
Vice-Chairman ASAO Naohiro
IWAKI Ken'ichi
UEDA Masaaki
UENO Shoichi
KOEZUKA Takashi
SATO Shigetaka
SAWADA Fujiko
SHIMASAKI Susumu
NAKADA Junna
NARASAKI Shoichi
YAJIMA Hidetoshi
YUYAMA Ken'ichi
REIZEI Tamehito
WAKITA Haruko

Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University
Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University
Executive Director of The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University
Proprietor of The Asahi Shimbun Company
President of Osaka University of Human Sciences and Osaka Kun-ei Women's College
President of Keihan Electric Railway Co.,Ltd.
WriterExecutive Director of the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art
Administrative Head Priest of Daigo-ji Temple
Professor Emeritus of Nagoya University
Chairman of Shimadzu Corporation
Executive Director of Nara National Museum
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Reizei Family Shigure-Tei Museum
Professor Emeritus of University of Shiga Prefecture, Professor of Josai International University(titles omitted)

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Operation of the National Museum② Directors

The Chairman of the Board of Directors (Executive Director of the Tokyo National Museum) NOZAKI Hiroshi

KOBAYASHI Tadashi

Professor of Gakushuin University

SAKAI Tadayasu

Executive Director of Setagaya Art Museum

Director (Executive Director of the Kyoto National Museum)

SASAKI Johei

Director (Executive Director of the Nara National Museum)

YUYAMA Ken'ichi

FUJITA Haruhiko

Professor of Osaka University Graduate School

Director (Exective Director of the Kyushu National Museum)

MIWA Karoku

FUJIYOSHI Masaomi

Certified Public Accountant

Auditor (Director of National Association for Vitalization of Traditional Culture)

KUBONIWA Shin'ichi

MORI Hiroko

Committee of Fukuoka Prefecture Council for the Protection of Cultural Properties

SHINOHARA Hiroyoshi

YOKOSATO KoichiManaging Director of NHK Promotion

Auditor (Certified Public Accountant)

HANABUSA Masamichi Senior Adviser of Kajima Corporation(titles omitted)③ Board of Special Advisors
The National Museum Independent Administrative Institute is mandated to enhance the museums' publicappeal. To help attain this goal, we have a board of special advisors consisting of learned men drawn fromoutside the museum staff to gather various opinions from many fields.
The mission of the board of special advisors is to discuss important issues about the operation andmanagement of the National Museum and give advice to the executive director. The number of board members
is no more than 20 and their tenure is 2 years (renewable.) Generally, two meetings per year of the Board are
held.

Chairman

FUKUHARA Yoshiharu Honorary President of Shiseido

Vice-Chairman OONUMA Sunao

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bunka Gakuen

ABE Mitsuo

Chairman of the Board of Directors of for the Society for the Promotion of the University of Air

UENO Shoichi

Proprietor of the Asahi Shimbun Company

OOHASHI Yoji

Chairman of ANA

OGURA Kazuo

Adviser to the Japan Foundation

TANAKA Kazuo

President of JR Kyushu

CHINO Tadao

Adviser to the NOMURA Research Institution

TSUJI Nobuo

Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University

TSUJIMURA Taizen

Executive Director of Kohfukuji Research Institute for Cultural Properties

TSUJIMURA Tetsuo

Chairman of the Board of Director of IAI National Museum of Art

NAKAJIMA FumikoWriterHAKETA Shingo

Grand Steward of the Imperial Household Agency

Mari Christine
MINO Yutaka

Different Culture Communicator
Executive Director of 21st Century Museum of Art,Kanazawa

MORI Mayumi

Writer

REIZEI Tamehito

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Reizei Family Shigure-Tei Museum

WAKASUGI Yoriko

Governor of the Soroptimist International of Americas Japan Minami Region⑤ Board of Trustees
There are separate boards of trustees for each national museum. The duties of the boards are to discuss
important issues concerning the operation of the museum and give advice to its executive director.
Board of Trustees, the Tokyo National Museum
Chairman
OONUMA Sunao
Vice-Chairman TSUJI Nobuo
AOYAGI Masanori
ABE Mitsuo
URAI Masaaki
OOHASHI Hisayoshi
OOHASHI Yoji
KATO Masakatsu
SAITO Jyunji
SHIRO Yoshinori
CHINO Tadao
FUKUHARA Yoshiharu
FUTATSUGI Tadao
MAKI Miyako
Mari Christine
MIYATA Ryohei
MORI Mayumi
YOSHIZUMI Hiroshi

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bunka Gakuen
Professor Emeritus of The University of Tokyo
Executive Director of the National Museum of Western Art
Chairman of the Board of Directors of for the Society for the Promotion of the University of Air
Committee of Taito Ward Council for the Protection of Cultural Properties
Principal of Taito Ward Shibugaoka Junior-high School
Chairman of ANA
Principal of Taito Ward Negishi Elementary School
Station Master of JR Ueno Station
Principal of Tokyo-to Ueno Highschool
Adviser to the Nomura Research Institution
Honorary President of Shiseido
Chairman of Ueno Sightseeing League
Cartoonist
Different Culture Communicator
Vice-President of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
WriterChief of Taito Ward(titles omitted)

Board of Trustees, the Kyoto National Museum(titles omitted)④ Board of Outside Evaluation
The performance of the Independent Administrative Institution is evaluated during each fiscal year and during
the period of the mid-term plan. For this purpose, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science andTechnology maintains a Board of Assessment to evaluate the performance of Independent Administrative
Institutions, but the National Museum itself has a board of outside evaluation consisting of learned men fromoutside the Museum, for self-evaluation of the performance of its operation, to verify that performance, and to
submit an evaluation.
The Board of Outside Evaluation has the duty to evaluates the performance of the operation of the National
Museum and give advice to the Executive Director. The board holds meetings and conducts such inspections
as are required to perform evaluations as necessary.

Chairman

KOZEN Hiroshi
Vice-Chairman ASAO Naohiro
IWAKI Ken'ichi
UEDA Masaaki
UENO Shoichi
KOEZUKA Takashi
SATO Shigetaka
SAWADA Fujiko
SHIMASAKI Susumu
NAKADA Junna
NARASAKI Shoichi
YAJIMA Hidetoshi
YUYAMA Ken'ichi
REIZEI Tamehito
WAKITA Haruko

Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University
Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University
Executive Director of The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University
Proprietor of The Asahi Shimbun Company
President of Osaka University of Human Sciences and Osaka Kun-ei Women's College
President of Keihan Electric Railway Co.,Ltd.
WriterExecutive Director of the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art
Administrative Head Priest of Daigo-ji Temple
Professor Emeritus of Nagoya University
Chairman of Shimadzu Corporation
Executive Director of Nara National Museum
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Reizei Family Shigure-Tei Museum
Professor Emeritus of University of Shiga Prefecture, Professor of Josai International University(titles omitted)

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Operation of the National Museum

Board of Trustees, the Nara National Museum
Chairman

KIMURA Shigenobu

Vice-Chairman KANASEKI Hiroshi

Executive Director of Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art

3

Budget of the fiscal year 2005

Professor Emeritus of Tenri University

UCHIYAMA Takeo

Former Executive Director of The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

OONO Genmyo

Chief Abbot of Shotoku Sect and Chief Priest of Horyuji Temple

KITA Keita

Chief of the Shoso-in Office of the Imperial Household Agency

SASAKI Johei

Executive Director of Kyoto National Museum

TANABE Ikuo

Executive Director of National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Nara

TSUJII Akio

President of Kinki Nippon Railway Co.,Ltd.

TUSJIMURA Taizen

Former President of National Research Institute of Cultural Properties, Gangoji Temple

NAKAJIMA FumikoFreelance writer

IncomeTotal

Grant for running expenses（2,129,213）
2,182,233（931,548）
879,155（915,588）
825,848（0）2,330,868（1,979,200）
404,107

Income from exhibition activities（995,015）
681,152（634,841）
300,809（103,832）
91,963（254,541）
193,095（0）
95,285（1,801）0

Entrance fees

（645,640）
549,611（407,855）
235,538（58,892）
72,716（178,893）
176,898（0）64,459（0）
0

Other incomes（349,375）
131,541（226,986）
65,271（44,940）
19,247（75,648）
16,197（0）30,826（1,801）
0（50,750）0（22,100）
0（19,300）
0（9,350）
0

（0）
0

（0）
0

Grant for facilities improvement（2,158,569）
311,504（25,515）
125,405

（0）
0

（0）
0

（0）
186,099（2,133,054）
0

Total

（9,159,883）
7,614,867（2,811,669）
2,608,447（1,054,680）
971,118（1,179,479）
1,018,943（0）2,612,252（4,114,055）
404,107

Contributions

Professor Emeritus of Nara Women's University

HAMURO Yoriaki

Chief Priet of Kasuga Shrine

MIZUNO Masayoshi

President of Osaka Center for Cultural Heritage

MORIMOTO Kousei

Chief Abbot of Kagon Sect and Steward of Todaiji Temple

YAMAZAKI Shigeko

Essayist

YAWATA Tadakazu

Superintendent of Nara Prefectural Board of Education

Tokyo National Museum Kyoto National Museum Nara National Museum Kyushu National Museum National Museum Secretariat（5,955,549）
6,622,211

NISHIGUCHI Hiromune President of Nanto BankNIWA Masako(unit: thousand yen)(

) indicates the closing sum for the previous fiscal year

Expenditure(titles omitted)

Board of Trustees, the Kyushu National Museum
Chairman

TANAKA Koji

Vice-Chairman MIURA Hajime

Chairman of JR Kyushu(unit: thousand yen)
Total

Tokyo National Museum Kyoto National Museum Nara National Museum Kyushu National Museum National Museum Secretariat

Personnel（2,376,592）
2,316,396（1,074,383）
1,036,296（410,736）
398,591（446,620）
404,415（0）
320,422（444,853）
156,672

Operational expenses（4,791,014）
4,986,967（2,232,896）
1,396,961（757,325）
597,605（805,858）
703,063（0）2,139,575（994,935）
149,763

General administration（663,867）
1,402,956（419,622）
456,241（129,142）
141,372（39,060）
269,676（0）418,280（76,043）
117,387

Exhibition activities（2,536,440）
2,687,029（1,262,178）
629,921（545,108）
348,219（712,320）
337,880（0）1,371,009（16,834）
0

Director of NHK Fukuoka

AGAWA Sawako

Essayist

OU Sadaharu

Manager of Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Baseball ClubOONO Shigeru

President of Foundation for establishing Kyushu National Museum

SAKAIDA Kakiemon

Ceramist

Research（573,351）
770,793（466,647）
260,177（60,470）
87,325（46,234）
56,648（0）336,655（0）29,988SATO Zenrou

Mayor of Dazaifu City

Education

TAKAKURA Hiroaki

Professor of Seinan Gakuin University（113,911）
126,189（83,059）
50,622（22,605）
20,689（8,244）38,859（0）
13,631（3）
2,388

TAKARA Kurayoshi

Professor of Ryukyu University

Preparations for Kyushu National Museum（903,445）
0（1,390）
0

（0）
0

（0）
0

（0）
0

（902,055）
0

TADA Akishige

Chairman of Nishinippon Newspaper Co.

Facility Improvement（2,158,569）
311,504（25,515）
125,405

（0）
0

（0）
0

（0）
186,099（2,133,054）
0（9,326,175）
7,614,867（3,332,794）
2,558,662（1,168,061）
996,196（1,252,478）
1,107,478（0）2,646,096（3,572,842）
306,435NISHITAKATUJI Nobuyoshi Chief Priest of Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine
HAYASHIDA Suma

Director of Onojo-city Gender Equality Center" Madokapia"

HIEDA Keiko

Deputy Governor of Fukuoka Prefecture

Total

(

YAMASHITA Hiroyuki President of Fukuoka University
WAKASUGI Yoriko

Governor of the Soroptimist International of Americas Japan Minami Region(titles omitted)⑥ Number of museum staff
Directors
Item
The Chairman of
the Board of Directors 1
Total
Directors 3
Auditors 2
National Museum Secretariat

Number of staff
Administrative staff Technical and security staff

Curator

41

101

46

27

54

42

20

6

16

Nara National Museum

34

13

8

13

Kyushu National Museum

28

10

239

97

8

8

Tokyo National Museum

127

Kyoto National Museum

20

18

21

) indicates the closing sum for the previous fiscal year

Operation of the National Museum

Board of Trustees, the Nara National Museum
Chairman

KIMURA Shigenobu

Vice-Chairman KANASEKI Hiroshi

Executive Director of Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art

3

Budget of the fiscal year 2005

Professor Emeritus of Tenri University

UCHIYAMA Takeo

Former Executive Director of The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

OONO Genmyo

Chief Abbot of Shotoku Sect and Chief Priest of Horyuji Temple

KITA Keita

Chief of the Shoso-in Office of the Imperial Household Agency

SASAKI Johei

Executive Director of Kyoto National Museum

TANABE Ikuo

Executive Director of National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Nara

TSUJII Akio

President of Kinki Nippon Railway Co.,Ltd.

TUSJIMURA Taizen

Former President of National Research Institute of Cultural Properties, Gangoji Temple

NAKAJIMA FumikoFreelance writer

IncomeTotal

Grant for running expenses（2,129,213）
2,182,233（931,548）
879,155（915,588）
825,848（0）2,330,868（1,979,200）
404,107

Income from exhibition activities（995,015）
681,152（634,841）
300,809（103,832）
91,963（254,541）
193,095（0）
95,285（1,801）0

Entrance fees

（645,640）
549,611（407,855）
235,538（58,892）
72,716（178,893）
176,898（0）64,459（0）
0

Other incomes（349,375）
131,541（226,986）
65,271（44,940）
19,247（75,648）
16,197（0）30,826（1,801）
0（50,750）0（22,100）
0（19,300）
0（9,350）
0

（0）
0

（0）
0

Grant for facilities improvement（2,158,569）
311,504（25,515）
125,405

（0）
0

（0）
0

（0）
186,099（2,133,054）
0

Total

（9,159,883）
7,614,867（2,811,669）
2,608,447（1,054,680）
971,118（1,179,479）
1,018,943（0）2,612,252（4,114,055）
404,107

Contributions

Professor Emeritus of Nara Women's University

HAMURO Yoriaki

Chief Priet of Kasuga Shrine

MIZUNO Masayoshi

President of Osaka Center for Cultural Heritage

MORIMOTO Kousei

Chief Abbot of Kagon Sect and Steward of Todaiji Temple

YAMAZAKI Shigeko

Essayist

YAWATA Tadakazu

Superintendent of Nara Prefectural Board of Education

Tokyo National Museum Kyoto National Museum Nara National Museum Kyushu National Museum National Museum Secretariat（5,955,549）
6,622,211

NISHIGUCHI Hiromune President of Nanto BankNIWA Masako(unit: thousand yen)(

) indicates the closing sum for the previous fiscal year

Expenditure(titles omitted)

Board of Trustees, the Kyushu National Museum
Chairman

TANAKA Koji

Vice-Chairman MIURA Hajime

Chairman of JR Kyushu(unit: thousand yen)
Total

Tokyo National Museum Kyoto National Museum Nara National Museum Kyushu National Museum National Museum Secretariat

Personnel（2,376,592）
2,316,396（1,074,383）
1,036,296（410,736）
398,591（446,620）
404,415（0）
320,422（444,853）
156,672

Operational expenses（4,791,014）
4,986,967（2,232,896）
1,396,961（757,325）
597,605（805,858）
703,063（0）2,139,575（994,935）
149,763

General administration（663,867）
1,402,956（419,622）
456,241（129,142）
141,372（39,060）
269,676（0）418,280（76,043）
117,387

Exhibition activities（2,536,440）
2,687,029（1,262,178）
629,921（545,108）
348,219（712,320）
337,880（0）1,371,009（16,834）
0

Director of NHK Fukuoka

AGAWA Sawako

Essayist

OU Sadaharu

Manager of Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Baseball ClubOONO Shigeru

President of Foundation for establishing Kyushu National Museum

SAKAIDA Kakiemon

Ceramist

Research（573,351）
770,793（466,647）
260,177（60,470）
87,325（46,234）
56,648（0）336,655（0）29,988SATO Zenrou

Mayor of Dazaifu City

Education

TAKAKURA Hiroaki

Professor of Seinan Gakuin University（113,911）
126,189（83,059）
50,622（22,605）
20,689（8,244）38,859（0）
13,631（3）
2,388

TAKARA Kurayoshi

Professor of Ryukyu University

Preparations for Kyushu National Museum（903,445）
0（1,390）
0

（0）
0

（0）
0

（0）
0

（902,055）
0

TADA Akishige

Chairman of Nishinippon Newspaper Co.

Facility Improvement（2,158,569）
311,504（25,515）
125,405

（0）
0

（0）
0

（0）
186,099（2,133,054）
0（9,326,175）
7,614,867（3,332,794）
2,558,662（1,168,061）
996,196（1,252,478）
1,107,478（0）2,646,096（3,572,842）
306,435NISHITAKATUJI Nobuyoshi Chief Priest of Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine
HAYASHIDA Suma

Director of Onojo-city Gender Equality Center" Madokapia"

HIEDA Keiko

Deputy Governor of Fukuoka Prefecture

Total

(

YAMASHITA Hiroyuki President of Fukuoka University
WAKASUGI Yoriko

Governor of the Soroptimist International of Americas Japan Minami Region(titles omitted)⑥ Number of museum staff
Directors
Item
The Chairman of
the Board of Directors 1
Total
Directors 3
Auditors 2
National Museum Secretariat

Number of staff
Administrative staff Technical and security staff

Curator

41

101

46

27

54

42

20

6

16

Nara National Museum

34

13

8

13

Kyushu National Museum

28

10

239

97

8

8

Tokyo National Museum

127

Kyoto National Museum

20

18

21

) indicates the closing sum for the previous fiscal year

Committee of the Ministry of Education,
Evaluation (by the IAI Evaluation
Culture, Sports and Science and Technology)

National
MuseumIn fiscal year 2004, the third evaluation was performed since the National Museum became an Independent
Administration Institution. Here are some portions of the evaluations of the performance of our operation in
fiscal 2003, given by the IAI Evaluation Committee of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science andTechnology.

Evaluation

Education

・Regarding the acceptance of trainees, it is necessary to clarify the aims, while striking a balancewith other operations.
・The Museum should continue seeking cooperative programs with universities and volunteers. It is
desirable to further promote digitization of reference materials on the Museum's collection ofartworks and books and make them available to the public. Besides, it is advisable that the Museum
improve the contains of educational programs so that they can suggest participants how to utilize
the Museum.

General evaluation
Fiscal 2003 was the third year of the mid-term plan for the National Museum. During this fiscal year, the number ofvisitors to the National Museum was about 2,130,000, which is far beyond the target of 1,340,000 visitors determinedin the plan, and its exhibitions were widely acclaimed. Staff members, not enough in number, succeeded to achieve thegoals as "Services provided to the Japanese people": collection, preservation, exhibition, research and education, and"Improvement of the efficiency of operation" were attained at a higher level than planned. Particularly, the Museum
actively worked for the new type of activities such as special events and concerts. Furthermore, in its role as thenational center, the Museum promoted international cultural exchanges, contributing greatly to the accomplishment ofmuseum activities in Japan and abroad. As a whole, the Committee highly evaluated that the National Museum haveachieved the results in the goal, "Attract more popularity as the National Museum" stated in the mid-term plan.

The following issues were raised by advisers. We will tackle these issues directly in the future.

Collection
andpreservation

Exhibitions

Research
activities

・In facilities where air conditioning is not available 24 hours a day, due consideration should
continue to be given to preventing the temperature and humidity from exceeding the specified
preservation range. In addition, care must be exercised to avoid extreme changes in temperatureand humidity.
・The museums with no staffs specialized in preservation and conservation should establish close
relations with outside experts.
・The National Museum should consider the standardization of the database concerned withpreservation and conservation, while disseminating cultural properties need to be restoredcontinuously. The handling of cultural properties requires caution as well as knowledge and skill.
This should be emphasized to people working for the Museum, both through experience in theworkplace and training.
・To make it easier to collect cultural properties, the Museum should cooperate with the Agency for
Cultural Affairs, to find methods for promoting the collection of cultural properties, such as
through the taxation system reform and other means. The three national museums should exchange
information freely enough so that art objects can be collected that are appropriate for eachmuseum.
・The Museum needs to enhance its public appeal through various activities, related to its
exhibitions, if it is to fulfill its purpose of attracting more people to the Museum. Techniques foraccomplishing this purpose include publicity activities, strategies that help promote tourism and thepromotion of industries in the local community, capturing the interest of people who have notpreviously visited the Museum, and developing in them the practice of visiting the Museum
frequently.
・Requests for loans of collections should be met as long as the states of the objects, the exhibition
plans and the purposes of loans permitted.
・To encourage people to make more frequent visits, the Museum should do such things as reviewing
the possibility of issuing complimentary tickets that are only valid for a limited period.
・To enhance the educational impact of the exhibitions, the art objects should be arranged so thatthey are easy to view, and the accompanying explanations should be clear and understandable.
・The results of research are published in the form of catalogues and bulletins prepared by the
National Museum. Such publications should be at a high academic level.
・Exhibitions are intellectual creations and resources by the museums. Vital publication activities,
such as publishing exhibition catalogues are expected. In addition, constructing database on
exhibitions should be resourced by both domestic and foreign researchers, and results of research
activities are should be available to the outside scholars.

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Other
services tovisitors

Considerations
Concerning
Operating
Procedures(applicable to highlevel managers
such as the
Chairman of theBoard of Directors)

・While conducting the visitor survey, it is recommended that the Museum to take more active
methods, including the adoption of the monitoring system to hear visitor's voice. The result of such
visitor research should be put to practical use to improve various projects, such as exhibitions andPR activities, for their better museum experience.
・It is necessary to continue to put most efforts on activities for visitors from foreign countries.
Services with effective use of internet, including providing the access information should beconsidered more in the future. Furthermore, accessibility should be improved continuously
・It is expected management will operate the National Museum efficiently and effectively, by
operating the four branch museums as one body and getting the most out of the resources owned by
the National Museum, such as its wide variety of cultural properties, its human resources, and theinformation it contains.
・It is advisable to develop supporters of museum activities to increase efforts on the cooperation of
local communities expand income through the utilization of facilities. The Museum should further
actively engage in international cultural exchanges.
・It is desirable to have the dynamic reform-oriented vision utilizing the characteristics of eachmuseum. Since the Museum became an Independent Administrative Institution, it is important for
directors to spearhead the National Museum under keen awareness as top executives.

Finances

・In keeping with the scope of each project, it is necessary to prepare the budget, spend the funds in a
flexible manner and with awareness of the ongoing cost level, and carefully check the results ofexpenditures.
・The fees for the loan of cultural properties, special exhibitions and the use of museum facilities areoften determined according to preset fees determined for national properties by the government.
However, it is a good idea for the Independent Administrative Institution to set their own more
flexible fee schedules, for example by determining admission fees and usage charges appropriate to
the services provided, considering the users and their purposes.

Personnel

・Administrative staff is supplied steadily in numbers, and the organization is activated by periodic
personnel exchanges among the Agency for Cultural Affairs, the Ministry of Education, Culture,
Sports, Science and Technology, national universities and the National Museum. However, it is noteasy to find administrative personnels with proper knowledge and skills to engage inadministration of museums. For this reason, the National Museum needs to recruit administrative
staff on its own and develop the skills of its own human resources, as well as, to provide training tohelp the persons to learn the specific matters they need to know to administer the museum.
・To operate the three museums as one body, the headquarter aspect of the National Museum should
be enhanced and staff exchange among the three museums should also be considered.
・Curators, in addition to their academic expertise, should fully understand their roles in the
Independent Administrative Institution and recognize the importance of broad range of museum
activities, such as operations and PR activities of the Museum.
Therefore, it is necessary to exchange staff with the Agency of Cultural Affairs and the national
universities, with full respect of curators' experience and expertise. The Museum should also
continue to recruit from private and regional museums and private entities.

Facilities

・The state of facilities should always be checked and repaired systematically according to priority
set by the National Museum Secretariat.
・The facilities should be contrived to be the comfortable places which also can preserve the culturalproperties adequately.
・Effective utilization of the facilities should be furthered including the PR of each museum. It ispreferable to develop the orientation of the new-established Kyushu National Museum with actual
directions.

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Committee of the Ministry of Education,
Evaluation (by the IAI Evaluation
Culture, Sports and Science and Technology)

National
MuseumIn fiscal year 2004, the third evaluation was performed since the National Museum became an Independent
Administration Institution. Here are some portions of the evaluations of the performance of our operation in
fiscal 2003, given by the IAI Evaluation Committee of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science andTechnology.

Evaluation

Education

・Regarding the acceptance of trainees, it is necessary to clarify the aims, while striking a balancewith other operations.
・The Museum should continue seeking cooperative programs with universities and volunteers. It is
desirable to further promote digitization of reference materials on the Museum's collection ofartworks and books and make them available to the public. Besides, it is advisable that the Museum
improve the contains of educational programs so that they can suggest participants how to utilize
the Museum.

General evaluation
Fiscal 2003 was the third year of the mid-term plan for the National Museum. During this fiscal year, the number ofvisitors to the National Museum was about 2,130,000, which is far beyond the target of 1,340,000 visitors determinedin the plan, and its exhibitions were widely acclaimed. Staff members, not enough in number, succeeded to achieve thegoals as "Services provided to the Japanese people": collection, preservation, exhibition, research and education, and"Improvement of the efficiency of operation" were attained at a higher level than planned. Particularly, the Museum
actively worked for the new type of activities such as special events and concerts. Furthermore, in its role as thenational center, the Museum promoted international cultural exchanges, contributing greatly to the accomplishment ofmuseum activities in Japan and abroad. As a whole, the Committee highly evaluated that the National Museum haveachieved the results in the goal, "Attract more popularity as the National Museum" stated in the mid-term plan.

The following issues were raised by advisers. We will tackle these issues directly in the future.

Collection
andpreservation

Exhibitions

Research
activities

・In facilities where air conditioning is not available 24 hours a day, due consideration should
continue to be given to preventing the temperature and humidity from exceeding the specified
preservation range. In addition, care must be exercised to avoid extreme changes in temperatureand humidity.
・The museums with no staffs specialized in preservation and conservation should establish close
relations with outside experts.
・The National Museum should consider the standardization of the database concerned withpreservation and conservation, while disseminating cultural properties need to be restoredcontinuously. The handling of cultural properties requires caution as well as knowledge and skill.
This should be emphasized to people working for the Museum, both through experience in theworkplace and training.
・To make it easier to collect cultural properties, the Museum should cooperate with the Agency for
Cultural Affairs, to find methods for promoting the collection of cultural properties, such as
through the taxation system reform and other means. The three national museums should exchange
information freely enough so that art objects can be collected that are appropriate for eachmuseum.
・The Museum needs to enhance its public appeal through various activities, related to its
exhibitions, if it is to fulfill its purpose of attracting more people to the Museum. Techniques foraccomplishing this purpose include publicity activities, strategies that help promote tourism and thepromotion of industries in the local community, capturing the interest of people who have notpreviously visited the Museum, and developing in them the practice of visiting the Museum
frequently.
・Requests for loans of collections should be met as long as the states of the objects, the exhibition
plans and the purposes of loans permitted.
・To encourage people to make more frequent visits, the Museum should do such things as reviewing
the possibility of issuing complimentary tickets that are only valid for a limited period.
・To enhance the educational impact of the exhibitions, the art objects should be arranged so thatthey are easy to view, and the accompanying explanations should be clear and understandable.
・The results of research are published in the form of catalogues and bulletins prepared by the
National Museum. Such publications should be at a high academic level.
・Exhibitions are intellectual creations and resources by the museums. Vital publication activities,
such as publishing exhibition catalogues are expected. In addition, constructing database on
exhibitions should be resourced by both domestic and foreign researchers, and results of research
activities are should be available to the outside scholars.

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Other
services tovisitors

Considerations
Concerning
Operating
Procedures(applicable to highlevel managers
such as the
Chairman of theBoard of Directors)

・While conducting the visitor survey, it is recommended that the Museum to take more active
methods, including the adoption of the monitoring system to hear visitor's voice. The result of such
visitor research should be put to practical use to improve various projects, such as exhibitions andPR activities, for their better museum experience.
・It is necessary to continue to put most efforts on activities for visitors from foreign countries.
Services with effective use of internet, including providing the access information should beconsidered more in the future. Furthermore, accessibility should be improved continuously
・It is expected management will operate the National Museum efficiently and effectively, by
operating the four branch museums as one body and getting the most out of the resources owned by
the National Museum, such as its wide variety of cultural properties, its human resources, and theinformation it contains.
・It is advisable to develop supporters of museum activities to increase efforts on the cooperation of
local communities expand income through the utilization of facilities. The Museum should further
actively engage in international cultural exchanges.
・It is desirable to have the dynamic reform-oriented vision utilizing the characteristics of eachmuseum. Since the Museum became an Independent Administrative Institution, it is important for
directors to spearhead the National Museum under keen awareness as top executives.

Finances

・In keeping with the scope of each project, it is necessary to prepare the budget, spend the funds in a
flexible manner and with awareness of the ongoing cost level, and carefully check the results ofexpenditures.
・The fees for the loan of cultural properties, special exhibitions and the use of museum facilities areoften determined according to preset fees determined for national properties by the government.
However, it is a good idea for the Independent Administrative Institution to set their own more
flexible fee schedules, for example by determining admission fees and usage charges appropriate to
the services provided, considering the users and their purposes.

Personnel

・Administrative staff is supplied steadily in numbers, and the organization is activated by periodic
personnel exchanges among the Agency for Cultural Affairs, the Ministry of Education, Culture,
Sports, Science and Technology, national universities and the National Museum. However, it is noteasy to find administrative personnels with proper knowledge and skills to engage inadministration of museums. For this reason, the National Museum needs to recruit administrative
staff on its own and develop the skills of its own human resources, as well as, to provide training tohelp the persons to learn the specific matters they need to know to administer the museum.
・To operate the three museums as one body, the headquarter aspect of the National Museum should
be enhanced and staff exchange among the three museums should also be considered.
・Curators, in addition to their academic expertise, should fully understand their roles in the
Independent Administrative Institution and recognize the importance of broad range of museum
activities, such as operations and PR activities of the Museum.
Therefore, it is necessary to exchange staff with the Agency of Cultural Affairs and the national
universities, with full respect of curators' experience and expertise. The Museum should also
continue to recruit from private and regional museums and private entities.

Facilities

・The state of facilities should always be checked and repaired systematically according to priority
set by the National Museum Secretariat.
・The facilities should be contrived to be the comfortable places which also can preserve the culturalproperties adequately.
・Effective utilization of the facilities should be furthered including the PR of each museum. It ispreferable to develop the orientation of the new-established Kyushu National Museum with actual
directions.

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National
MuseumDisclosure of information
Information about donation and membership●Information Disclosure
For inquiries about the information disclosure in documents concerning the operation of the
Independent Administrative Institution National Museum (National Museum Secretariat, Tokyo
National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Nara National Museum and Kyushu National Museum),and requests to disclose and correct the personal information in the documents, in compliance with
the Law concerning Personal Information Protection which was enacted in April 2005, please consult
the Information Departments set up in the individual museums.
In addition, an information system for documents about the operation of the National Museum isavailable on the Internet: http://www.natmus.jp/DocFileSearch.html●National Museum Secretariat
The National Museum established the National Museum Secretariat to efficiently operate the 4
museums: the Tokyo National Museum, the Kyoto National Museum, the Nara National Museum,and the Kyushu National Museum in an integrated manner.The National Museum Secretariat holds
the meeting of the Board of Special Advisors and the Board of Outside Evaluation,conducts themutual activities in 4 museums: Budgets, human resources, planning, mutual relief, etc.
In addition, it disseminates the activities of the National Museum via web sites, annual reports andthis "Outline of the Independent Administrative Institution National Museum".

●Donations
Although Independent Administrative Institutions are operated through the national grant for running
expenses and facilities improvement, in terms of serious financial condition and promotion of efficiency,
it is required to invite outside funds. And the National Museum, which is no exception, must have asource of income beside entrance fee. Thus the museum needs the support from a wide range of outsideorganization and people.
Also, the National Museum appreciates donations of cultural properties to conserve, research and exhibit
them. (There is preferential tax treatment provided for the donations to the National Museum)For further information about the donation, please contact the followings.

Tokyo National Museum

Kyoto National Museum Nara National Museum Kyushu National Museum

Inquiries Funds

National Museum Secretariat Public Relations Division Public Relations Division, Account Public Relations Division
Cultural Resource Division,
Collections Cultural Property Division, Resistor's office Registration and Image Archives Curator Division,Planning Curatorial Board, Management●Membership
The Tokyo National Museum and the Nara National Museum are supported by the supporting member
systems (which can be joined at any time), and the Kyoto National Museum is supported by the Seifukai.
We also offer "friends of the museum" and "museum passport" systems to encourage people to visit themuseum more frequently.
You are welcomed to join any of these systems.
Supporting Member System

Tokyo National Museum

Kyoto National Museum Nara National Museum

Name

Supporting membership of the Tokyo
National Museum

SeifukaiSupporting membership of the Nara
National Museum

Annual Fee

Special membership:
more than 1 million yen
Sustaining membership: 50 thousand
yen for individuals; 200 thousand yen
for organizations

Supporting membership (unit):
100 thousand yen
Special membership:50 thousand yen
Ordinary membership: 20 thousand yen

Special supporting membership:
more than 500 thousand yen
Supporting membership: 50 thousand
yen for individuals; 200thousand yen
for organizations

Benefits

Regular exhibitions:With the membership card you and one companion have unlimited free admission to theregular exhibitions during the museum's open hours.
Special exhibitions:With the membership card you and one companion have unlimited free admission to
special exhibitions during the museum's open hours.
* At other museums than the museum to which the membership applies, you have one
time only free admission with a companion to special exhibitions.

Inquiries

Business Development Department,
External Affairs and Business
Development
Phone:03-3822-1111

SeifukaiPhone:075-531-7519

Public Relations Division,
Business Development
Phone:0742-22-7771

cf. The number of supporting members in fiscal 2004:
Tokyo National Museum ８
６, Kyoto National Museum ４００, Nara National Museum 9 * including individuals and organizations

The Friends of the Museum and Museum Passport System

Tokyo National Museum
Name

National Museum Homepage
http://www.natmus.jp/

AnnualFee

10,000yen

Passport
3,000
yen forgeneral2,000
yen forstudents

Kyoto National Museum Nara National Museum
Friends of the Museum
3,000 yenfor general

2,000 yenfor students

Friends of the Museum (Passport)
3,000
yen forgeneral2,000
yen forstudents

6 ,000yen forfamilies

Regular exhibitions:With the membership card, you have unlimited free admission to regular exhibitions during
the museum's open hours.
* With the family membership card of the Nara National Museum, a total of five people will
be admitted to any regular exhibition at the Nara National Museum free of charge. You
alone will be admitted free of charge to regular exhibitions at the Tokyo, Kyoto andKyushu National Museums.

At the web sites, the Museum provides the information as follows：
・The latest information of mutual activities in 4 museums
・The employment information
Benefits

・The directors' column

Inquiries
2001-2003 Annual reports

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Friends of theMuseumSpecial exhibitions:With a membership card or passport, you will be admitted to special exhibitions (up to six
exhibitions) free of charge.
* Members of the Friends of Museum of the Tokyo National Museum are given 12 freetickets to special exhibitions (six tickets are valid only at the Tokyo National Museum).
* With a family membership card at the Nara National Museum, a total of five people will be
admitted to a special exhibition at the Nara National Museum free of charge. You alone
will be admitted free of charge to special exhibitions at the Tokyo, Kyoto and Kyushu
National Museums.(Note that this benefit is available six times in all at the Tokyo, Kyoto,
Nara and Kyushu National Museums.)
Business Development
Public Relations Division,
Public Relations Division,
Department, External Affairs
Public Relations
Business Development
and Business Development
Phone:075-541-1151
Phone: 0742-22-7771
Phone:03-3822-1111

cf. The number of the Friends of the Museum and the subscriber of Museum Passport system in fiscal 2004:
Tokyo National Museum 14,670, Kyoto National Museum 1,884, Nara National Museum 2,638
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Institution National Museum Secretariat

National
MuseumDisclosure of information
Information about donation and membership●Information Disclosure
For inquiries about the information disclosure in documents concerning the operation of the
Independent Administrative Institution National Museum (National Museum Secretariat, Tokyo
National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Nara National Museum and Kyushu National Museum),and requests to disclose and correct the personal information in the documents, in compliance with
the Law concerning Personal Information Protection which was enacted in April 2005, please consult
the Information Departments set up in the individual museums.
In addition, an information system for documents about the operation of the National Museum isavailable on the Internet: http://www.natmus.jp/DocFileSearch.html●National Museum Secretariat
The National Museum established the National Museum Secretariat to efficiently operate the 4
museums: the Tokyo National Museum, the Kyoto National Museum, the Nara National Museum,and the Kyushu National Museum in an integrated manner.The National Museum Secretariat holds
the meeting of the Board of Special Advisors and the Board of Outside Evaluation,conducts themutual activities in 4 museums: Budgets, human resources, planning, mutual relief, etc.
In addition, it disseminates the activities of the National Museum via web sites, annual reports andthis "Outline of the Independent Administrative Institution National Museum".

●Donations
Although Independent Administrative Institutions are operated through the national grant for running
expenses and facilities improvement, in terms of serious financial condition and promotion of efficiency,
it is required to invite outside funds. And the National Museum, which is no exception, must have asource of income beside entrance fee. Thus the museum needs the support from a wide range of outsideorganization and people.
Also, the National Museum appreciates donations of cultural properties to conserve, research and exhibit
them. (There is preferential tax treatment provided for the donations to the National Museum)For further information about the donation, please contact the followings.

Tokyo National Museum

Kyoto National Museum Nara National Museum Kyushu National Museum

Inquiries Funds

National Museum Secretariat Public Relations Division Public Relations Division, Account Public Relations Division
Cultural Resource Division,
Collections Cultural Property Division, Resistor's office Registration and Image Archives Curator Division,Planning Curatorial Board, Management●Membership
The Tokyo National Museum and the Nara National Museum are supported by the supporting member
systems (which can be joined at any time), and the Kyoto National Museum is supported by the Seifukai.
We also offer "friends of the museum" and "museum passport" systems to encourage people to visit themuseum more frequently.
You are welcomed to join any of these systems.
Supporting Member System

Tokyo National Museum

Kyoto National Museum Nara National Museum

Name

Supporting membership of the Tokyo
National Museum

SeifukaiSupporting membership of the Nara
National Museum

Annual Fee

Special membership:
more than 1 million yen
Sustaining membership: 50 thousand
yen for individuals; 200 thousand yen
for organizations

Supporting membership (unit):
100 thousand yen
Special membership:50 thousand yen
Ordinary membership: 20 thousand yen

Special supporting membership:
more than 500 thousand yen
Supporting membership: 50 thousand
yen for individuals; 200thousand yen
for organizations

Benefits

Regular exhibitions:With the membership card you and one companion have unlimited free admission to theregular exhibitions during the museum's open hours.
Special exhibitions:With the membership card you and one companion have unlimited free admission to
special exhibitions during the museum's open hours.
* At other museums than the museum to which the membership applies, you have one
time only free admission with a companion to special exhibitions.

Inquiries

Business Development Department,
External Affairs and Business
Development
Phone:03-3822-1111

SeifukaiPhone:075-531-7519

Public Relations Division,
Business Development
Phone:0742-22-7771

cf. The number of supporting members in fiscal 2004:
Tokyo National Museum ８
６, Kyoto National Museum ４００, Nara National Museum 9 * including individuals and organizations

The Friends of the Museum and Museum Passport System

Tokyo National Museum
Name

National Museum Homepage
http://www.natmus.jp/

AnnualFee

10,000yen

Passport
3,000
yen forgeneral2,000
yen forstudents

Kyoto National Museum Nara National Museum
Friends of the Museum
3,000 yenfor general

2,000 yenfor students

Friends of the Museum (Passport)
3,000
yen forgeneral2,000
yen forstudents

6 ,000yen forfamilies

Regular exhibitions:With the membership card, you have unlimited free admission to regular exhibitions during
the museum's open hours.
* With the family membership card of the Nara National Museum, a total of five people will
be admitted to any regular exhibition at the Nara National Museum free of charge. You
alone will be admitted free of charge to regular exhibitions at the Tokyo, Kyoto andKyushu National Museums.

At the web sites, the Museum provides the information as follows：
・The latest information of mutual activities in 4 museums
・The employment information
Benefits

・The directors' column

Inquiries
2001-2003 Annual reports

24

Friends of theMuseumSpecial exhibitions:With a membership card or passport, you will be admitted to special exhibitions (up to six
exhibitions) free of charge.
* Members of the Friends of Museum of the Tokyo National Museum are given 12 freetickets to special exhibitions (six tickets are valid only at the Tokyo National Museum).
* With a family membership card at the Nara National Museum, a total of five people will be
admitted to a special exhibition at the Nara National Museum free of charge. You alone
will be admitted free of charge to special exhibitions at the Tokyo, Kyoto and Kyushu
National Museums.(Note that this benefit is available six times in all at the Tokyo, Kyoto,
Nara and Kyushu National Museums.)
Business Development
Public Relations Division,
Public Relations Division,
Department, External Affairs
Public Relations
Business Development
and Business Development
Phone:075-541-1151
Phone: 0742-22-7771
Phone:03-3822-1111

cf. The number of the Friends of the Museum and the subscriber of Museum Passport system in fiscal 2004:
Tokyo National Museum 14,670, Kyoto National Museum 1,884, Nara National Museum 2,638
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Institution National Museum Secretariat

Outline of the Independent
Administrative Institution
National Museum

2005

Independent Administrative Institution
National Museum Secretariat
13-9, Ueno Koen, Taito-ku, Tokyo, 110-8712
Phone: 03-3822-1111
URL: http://www.natmus.jp/